Earth & Sky: The Laurie Lewis Songbook

During the past two decades, Berkeley, California-based band leader/ singer/ songwriter/ fiddler/ guitarist/ bass player Laurie Lewis has quietly established herself as one of the finest, most diversely talented artists in traditional music. It is as an interpreter of her own memorable songs, however, that Laurie most often touches the uninitiated, and it is as interpreter of her own songs that she continues to leave an indelible impression on the hearts and minds of festival audiences, concertgoers, album buyers, and music lovers in general throughout the traditional and acoustic music world. In Earth and Sky Laurie presents forty-five of her original songs along with her musical arrangements in a large-format book with a lay-flat binding. She introduces the book with an essay ( Courting the Muse) about her songwriting methods. There she doles out plenty of practical advice, speaks openly of her influences, and touches on theory.