Photo by:Phil Monica Boston Blues Festival 1999					Liz's New Project:
		"Married with Chitlins" is a duo with her husband Chris exploring Classic Country tunes, Acoustic Blues, and the newest Original Songs set in an Acoustic Genre. It's a bit more Country and a bit more Ole Time Blues. Performances are listed in the Gigs section

The Liz Lannon Band: Blue On Blue

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The Boston-based Lannon sings with an emotional clarity and strenth unsurpassed around town. Backed by J.B. Hutto's New Hawks and others she.... puts convincing stangleholds on Chicgo Blues classics and brazenly revitalizes two old songs from r&b anachist Andre Williams

The Liz Lannon Band Blues Party

. Coming out of nowhere is this CD featuring a great new female blues singer. Liz Lannon has a clearly defined yet commanding voice...

not what you'd expect from the cover photo which is a pleasant surprise. She handles the opening ball-buster, "Scratch Ticket" with ease and can switch gears 180 degrees for Little Willie John's weeper "Need Your Love So Bad." Of her own material, "Sittin and Drinkin" presents Lannon in a number reminiscent of Bessie Smith. A couple of the band members get their own solo numbers. "Rollins" a tribute to jazz-master Sonny R. from Ken Clarke on Organ and "Off Season" featuring sax-blaster Charlie Kohlhase and Chris Lannon's nice guitar work. Keep an eye out, this gal's got a future in the biz.

Cotten (Rock and Blues News)

"Excepting maybe Toni Lynn Washington's album Liz Lannon has made the strongest album by a Boston based woman blues/R&B singer in the 90's. Good singing, good musicianship and intelligent choice of material."--Frank-John Hadley (Downbeat)

Greater Boston has a handful of good female blues/r&b singers who record and appear regularly or occasionally at clubs. Of this special bunch, Liz Lannon has the strongest rapport with Chicago blues and Memphis-style soul blues. It appears as if Koko Taylor, Etta James, Muddy Waters and Albert King were all in her family tree.

On her new album, Lannon handles time-honored songs with tradition-rooted originals with self confidence and a convincing sort of enthusium. She sings as if she honestly felt what the words of tunes like "Johnny Copeland's "If You Want Me To Beg You" and B.B. King's "I've Got Papers On You Baby" expressed. Lannon likes to belt it out, oh yes, but she also does what Etta James calls "real singing" dig her sure way with phrasing, rhythm, dynamics and gradations of feeling on a compelling treatment of the little-known gem "Show it to me Baby."

The Liz Lannon Band deserves to be known throughout Blues America. This recording delivers more enjoyment than many of the albums released by the famous blues labels. "Nuff said. Now let their music do their talking.

	Live at The BlueTrain Liz Lannon can sing with the best of 'em on the Boston scene and this rousing live CD is proof positive. Thanks to some long time blues veterans such as guitarist Silvertone Steve Coveney bassman and vocalist Kenny Krumbholtz, Diane Gately on drums, Ken Clark on organ, Blue Stu on harp. Lannon is the conductor of good times at the BlueTrain in Stoughton. "Jump", "What's Wrong Baby" by Jimmy Reed and "Coo Coo" by JB Hutto are knee deep into the traditionalist blues., Charles Brown's "Merry Christmas Baby" (well it was recorded on December 9th 2000), and the original "Sittin' and Drinkin"by Lannon and Coveney tone it down to give more depth to the recording. An extended version of "Queen Bee" by James Moore and an upbeat and bouncy.
"Everyday (I Have the Blues)" by Peter Chatman kept the dancers on the dance floor. All of the musicians work very well together and you can feel the easiness by which they go about thier work. It just sounds like great fun. You shoulda been there. Art Simas -New England Blues Spectrum