Raise the Honey

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1		Merry-Go-Ride	4:07	Play
2		Who I Am	4:57	Play
3		Beautiful Dream	4:13	Play
4		Holy Mother	4:28	Play
5		Jayme's Song	4:27	Play
6		Alchemy	3:23	Play
7		Brute Faith	3:07	Play
8		Sifting Sand	3:22	Play
9		Little Ray	3:38	Play
10		More Love	3:36	Play
11		My Joy	2:48	Play
12		Make Amends	2:56	Play
13		Technicolor World	3:32	Play

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Lisa Jane Lipkin is a singer, songwriter, pianist and arranger. She has been a featured performer at the famed Towne Crier in Pawling, NY, has opened for blues singer Shemekia Copeland, and has a cut on Basina Records' CD for Gilda's Place of Western PA. Her compositions and arrangements have been recorded and performed by groups such as With Spirit Sing!, Aksara, and Women Spirit Song. In addition, she has recorded, arranged, and produced for other artists including Sandi Kimmel and Christine Pepe. In November 2004, Lisa released her debut CD entitled "Raise the Honey."

""Raise the Honey" is about holding the sweet things in life above all else," says Lisa. That theme weaves through thirteen soul-tinged, jazz-inflected originals, which reveal Lisa's storytelling, unexpected, and captivating musical world. With a distinctive, engaging voice, Lisa sings of personal and universal ideas including holding on to faith, the alchemy of love, and turning grief positive action.

Raised in a small northwest New Jersey town, this youngest of four daughters says she learned to play piano and be a good girl. "My mom wanted me to be a lawyer and to forget about music, my dad was a lawyer and told me to pursue my dreams. It took about thirty years to resolve the split in my psyche and commit to doing what I love."

Even non-committal, Lisa was long immersed in music. She began with classical piano at age nine on "an old player piano with the guts taken out." She studied flute through middle school and played a little oboe, too. In high school, she sang in the select choruses where "the harmonies were cooler". Lisa wrote her first song at age seventeen.

While earning a BA in music at Rutgers University, Lisa had the privilege to study with jazz great, Kenny Baron. Jazz inspired, she continued to learn "a lot" of standards and sang at open mikes in Greenwich Village. Later, she sang, danced, and was musical director for a 60's girl group revue, "The Heartbeats." During this time, she was working in the record business and over ten years did everything from preparing record label copy to jazz radio promotion at BMG. All throughout, Lisa continued to write songs and record them as demo's. At the turn of the century, Lisa began recording a "real" CD with co-producer Marc Teamaker and with industry veteran John Guth.

Lisa says her songs grow out of what she lives. Once called "a healer in musician's clothing", Lisa admits she hopes her music will move and uplift people and offer something of what she's learned. She adds, "I've learned one thing for sure: about the honey...if you can keep it on the tip of your tongue, all of life becomes sweet."