Singer/songwriter Lisa Hannigan has recently released her superb sophomore solo recording, Passenger, produced by Joe Henry. It's a growth from her 2009 debut, Sea Sew, with excellent musicianship, arrangements and stronger songs. It's her singing, however, that gives her the edge - her delivery, with her Irish lilt, is, well, lovely. Absolutely. Hannigan's a songwriter to keep an eye on (and that's not too hard!).
BW SUBBAGE/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT
Instant This/ WILL MARTINA (’11, The Dam Levels)*
Blues For the Double Vee/ JENNY SCHEINMAN (’11, Mischief & Mayhem)
Floored/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’10, Initiate)
Strike/ TAYLOR HO BYNAM SEXTET (’11, Apparent Distance)*
Sidi Mansour/ SIR RICHARD BISHOP (’09, The Freak of Araby)
Red Shoes (live)/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time)
The Water Under the Moon/ A HAWK AND A HACKSAW (’05, Darkness at
Cursed Sleep (live)/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY WITH HAREM SCAREM AND ALEX NEILSON (’08, Is It the Sea?)
Odd Said the Doe/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE (’07, You Follow Me)
Knots/ LISA HANNIGAN (’11, Passenger)*
The End/ THE LOWER 48 (’11, Where All Maps End)*
Old Old Fashioned/ FRIGHTENED RABBIT (’08, The
Emily (live)/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (w/ Cameron Grieder) (’00, Live at 33 1/3)
City Bird/ JESCA HOOP (’11, Snowglobe ep)*
Dead Horse/ ROBIN HOLCOMB (’06, Rogue’s Gallery)
Saro/ SAM AMIDON (’07, All Is Well)
Save Yourself/ SHARON VAN ETTEN (’10, epic)
One Stolen Moment/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)
Take Care the Road You Choose/ RICHARD THOMPSON (’07, Sweet Warrior)
I’m on Fire/ WHITEY MORGAN & THE 78’S (’08, Honky Tonks and Cheap Motels)
State Trooper/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (’82,
Ramblin’ Man/ HANK WILLIAMS (’53)
Back of a Crowd/ TOM WAITS ('11, Bad As Me)*
*new or recent release
.gif)