finetune artist: Lisa Loeb

b. Lisa Anne Loeb, 11 March 1968, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Singer-songwriter Loeb grew up in Dallas and attended Brown University, where she played in a band with her friend Liz Mitchell and Duncan Sheik. Relocating to New York she recorded a demo tape and toured incessantly with her band Nine Stories, comprising Tim Bright (guitar), Jonathan Feinberg (drums) and Joe Quigley (bass). She sprang to fame in 1994 when her friend, actor Ethan Hawke, persuaded the producers of the movie Reality Bites to use her song "Stay (I Missed You)" as its theme. The result was a US number 1 despite Loeb not yet having a recording contract. That situation was quickly rectified with the intervention of Geffen Records, who are alleged to have offered over $1 million for her signature. Some of the furore then died down while Loeb set about crafting her debut album, the first evidence of which arrived with the release of the US Top 20 single "Do You Sleep?" in September 1995. The accompanying album was co-produced with long-standing colleague Juan Pati¤o and Nine Stories. The songs were drawn from over 10 years worth of writing, notably the very early composition "Garden Of Delights". In press interviews of the time she was keen to salute rock influences as diverse as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Fugazi, rather than the acoustic singer-songwriters with whom she was most readily identified in the press. Tracks such as "Alone" and "It's Over" bore this out, though even the quieter selections were imbued with sarcasm and Loeb's confrontational instincts.

Listen to Lisa Loeb at Finetune.

(2007) Cherries
(2006) The Very Best Of
(2002) Hello Lisa
(1997) Firecracker

Stay
I Do
Do You Sleep?
How
Falling In Love