Liz Longley Talks to Talking Hendrix

Our guest this week are Liz Longley, Bobby Hart, and Kim Richey all singers/songwriters see information on all artists below:

Liz Longley

In the short time since her graduation from Boston’s renowned Berklee College of Music, acoustic singer-songwriter Liz Longley has assembled quite an impressive resume.
While best known for her stop-you-in-your-tracks voice, Liz has quickly built a reputation as an accomplished songwriter, crafting intimately personal portraits through her music.

Liz's ever expanding fan base is not the only group to acknowledge her talent.

In 2010 alone, Liz took home top prizes at some of the most prestigious songwriting competitions in the country; the BMI John Lennon Songwriting Scholarship Competition, the International Acoustic Music Awards and the Rocky Mountain Folk Fest Songwriting Competition.
While she has frequently opened shows for and been compared to established artists such as Mindy Smith, Nanci Griffith, Paula Cole, Livingston Taylor, Amos Lee, Shawn Colvin, Colin Hay and America, it is becoming clear that Liz has come into her own as a performer.
The Washington Post declared that she is “destined to a bigger audience,” Dig Boston called her “a rising acoustic sensation” and even John Mayer is a fan, calling her music “gorgeous, just gorgeous.”

Executives at Sirius XM caught wind of Liz’s cover of Van Morrison’s hit “Moondance” and added it into regular rotation, along with her award-winning original song, “When You’ve Got Trouble.”
Her songs have been used in multiple television and film projects including the ABC series NY Med, ABC's Switched at Birth and MTV's Scream: The TV Series. Her song "This Is Not the End" was showcased in the grand finale of the series Army Wives.

Liz is currently touring the country in support of her fifth and most recent album, Weightless on the Sugar Hill Record label and currently lives in Nashville, where she’s been collaborating with some of Music City's notable songwriting talent. She co-wrote with Amy Stroup, Phillip LaRue, Peter Groenwald, and Blake Stratton. To find out more about our guest Liz Longley check out her official website, facebook, and youtube page below:

Liz Longley's Official Website:

https://www.lizlongley.com

Facebook link:

https://www.facebook.com/LizLongleyMusic/

Youtube Link – When You’ve Got Trouble:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM4tDPSPtp0

Bobby Hart:

Bobby Hart is a singer, songwriter, actor, and book author who started out at the age of 18 singing and learning that the key to the music business in the sixties and still is today in writing songs, so he and his song writing partner Tommy Boyce were friends in New york City and both went out to Los Angeles not quite at the same time but a few months apart tried their hand at singing and made some singles that weren't successful at that time so then they teamed up and tried their hands at songwriting and started writing hits for such names as Curtis Lee with the song "Pretty Litttle Angel Eyes", Little Anthony and the Imperials hit "Hurts So Bad", and Jay and the Americans "Come A Little Bit Closer" those were just a few songs to their writing credits and from there they took off and wrote many hits for the television/pop group The Monkees and while writing for them they wrote such hits as "last Train To Clarksville, Vallerie, I'm Not Your Steping Stone, P.O. Bos 9847, I Wanna Be Free and many more that were on the Monkees nine album collection. While writing and working with the Monkees Boyce and Hart Also got signed to A&M Records where they recorded three albums of their own and charted with a few singles too like "I Wonder What She's Doing TOnight", "Alice Long", "Out and About" and they also made some television appearances on such shows as The Hollywood Palace, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie and The Flying Nun. Bobby has had a long and successful career now with adding book author to his resume by writing his own autobiography about his career entitled "Psychedelic Bubblegum" which was in the top 100 on amazon's best sellers for weeks in 2015. Please be sure to tune in and hear all about Bobby's musical journey and fun stories from the road as well.

Kim Richey :

Singer/Songwriter from Nashville, TN. known for working with such country artists as Trisha Yearwood who has recorded at least two of Richey's penned songs "Those Words We Said" and "Believe Me Baby I Lied" Richey put a new album out in April of 2018 entitled "Edgeland" and has been currently touring in support of the albm, tune in and hear some of her stories of writing and touring on the road.

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