Local Country Music Artist Lisa Dames Performs Saturday
GREENSBORO
– Local country music artist Lisa Dames
will be making in-store performances at numerous
Wal-Mart locations, with local legend Sam Frazier to promote Lisa's new CD
“No One Like Me.”
Lisa will perform in Elkin, Sat., Nov. 24, at 11:00 a.m., and later at 2:30 p.m. in Wilkesboro. They will also perform at 11 a.m., Dec. 1 in High Point, and 2:30 p.m. in Kernersville.
Lisa’s new CD, released on the Howling Music Group label, represents a penetrating and sometimes humorous view of life from a woman’s perspective. From the comfort and confidence of “Good Times Lookin” and “Kinda Fun (Getting Over You)” through the isolation of loneliness in “Way Down Here” to the serious life struggles of “Just Another Day,” the songs weave a tapestry of a relationship moving through various stages that many experience in life.
Recently, Lisa signed an agreement with 36 Waffle House locations throughout North Carolina to have her songs featured on the restaurant chain’s juke boxes. Nationally, Waffle House is second only to Pizza Hut in the number of retail juke boxes. The deal means that her new songs will enjoy wide exposure and opportunity for play, helping to sell CDs. In October, she was featured as Country Performer of the Month on Coca-Cola’s “myCoke.com” website. Her video for the single, “Just Another Day,” has made it into the Top 64 videos in CMT.com's Music City Madness 2 competition.
Married and living in Greensboro, Lisa says “There seems to be a prevailing thought that once a woman gets married and has kids, she stops being a woman. I tend to believe the opposite---that woman may get married and have kids, but first and foremost she’s a woman.”
Lisa says that a wide range of female vocal artists have shaped her singing career. She credits Reba McEntire, Patsy Cline, Linda Ronstadt, Olivia Newton John, Carly Simon, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Suzy Bogguss, Pam Tillis, Lori Morgan, Martina McBride, Barbra Streisand, Barbara Mandrell--If it's a woman, and she sings, she probably had some influence on me at some point in my career. Lisa has appeared in eight stage productions as Patsy Cline between 2001 and 2004, including Greensboro. She says that playing the role of Cline helped her to hone her own vocal style.
Sam Frazier is a Greensboro-based singer, songwriter, and musician. His all-originals band, the Sam Frazier Band, hosts some of the most talented musicians in the area: David McCracken (keys/vox), Steve Clarke (bass), and Cliff Greeson (drums). You can also see him with such incarnations as the Hall Monitors, Johnny's Middle Finger, and the Walrus (Ray Loughran), playing well-known and not-so-well-known covers.
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