Lisa Marie Presley to Release "Storm and Grace" on May 15

It's been five long years, but LMP is making her return to music. LMP = Lisa Marie Presley, for the uninitiated.

She is one of our favorite artists, so this news sends us off into the weekend in an incredibly good mood.

On May 15, the only daughter of Elvis Presley, will release Storm and Grace, her first album in five years and her Universal Republic/XIX Recordings debut. The album was produced by 12-time GRAMMY® winner T-Bone Burnett and recorded at The Village in Los Angeles.

Storm and Grace is a marked departure from the hard-edged sound of Presley's earlier albums: 2003's RIAA Gold-certified To Whom It May Concern and 2005's Now What, both of which debuted in the Top 10 of The Billboard 200. The organic instrumentation of Storm and Grace reflects her Southern roots, from the ominous, swampy vibe of lead single "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" and "Sticks And Stones" to "Soften The Blows" and the achingly beautiful title track, which evoke the ease of an impromptu back porch jam session.

Sounds divine. We're excited.

"Just over two years ago, I went to England to attempt to write another record after finding myself in a considerably disheartened and uninspired state creatively. Over an eight-month period, I wrote 30 songs. I was fortunate to be able to write with some incredible artists and singers such as Richard Hawley (from Pulp), Ed Harcourt, Sacha Skarbek and Fran Healy (from Travis), to name a few," recalled Lisa Marie Presley. "Nothing was planned or contrived in any way and out of it came a very organic record that was always inside of me and that I am incredibly proud of. It was a dream come true and such an honor when T Bone liked the songs and produced and played on the record."

"When songs from Lisa Marie Presley showed up at my door, I was curious. I wondered what the daughter of an American revolutionary music artist had to say. What I heard was honest, raw, unaffected and soulful. I thought her father would be proud of her. The more I listened to the songs, the deeper an artist I found her to be. Listening beyond the media static, Lisa Marie Presley is a Southern American folk music artist of great value," said T Bone Burnett.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Lisa Marie Presley digs up southern roots for new album


(Reuters) - Lisa Marie Presley pays homage to her southern heritage in new album "Storm and Grace" set for release in May after a five-year hiatus from the music industry, Universal Republic record label said on Thursday.

"Nothing was planned or contrived in any way, and out of it came a very organic record that was always inside of me and that I am incredibly proud of," Presley said in a statement on Thursday.

The only child of late rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie kicked off her music career with a 2003 debut album "To Whom It May Concern." It was followed by 2005's "Now What," and both hit the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart.

The singer's third album, "Storm and Grace," harks back to Presley's southern roots, and was produced by Grammy-winning country producer T Bone Burnett, who was curious to work with "the daughter of an American revolutionary music artist."

"What I heard was honest, raw, unaffected and soulful. I thought her father would be proud of her. The more I listened to the songs, the deeper an artist I found her to be," Burnett said in a statement, calling Presley "a Southern American folk music artist of great value."

Presley, who found herself in a "considerably disheartened and uninspired state creatively," wrote the album over an eight-month period in England, working with artists such as Richard Hawley from Brit band Pulp and Fran Healy of the group Travis.

The album is due for release on May 15.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Lisa Marie Presley Gets Back To Her Southern Roots

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]


Lisa Marie Presley will release Storm and Grace – her first album in five years and her Universal Republic/XIX Recordings debut. Presley is managed by Simon Fuller, CEO and Founder of XIX Entertainment. The album was produced by 12-time Grammy winner T Bone Burnett and recorded at The Village in Los Angeles. See below for track listing.

Storm and Grace is a marked departure from the hard-edged sound of Presley’s earlier albums. The organic instrumentation of Storm and Grace reflects her Southern roots, from the ominous, swampy vibe of lead single “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” and “Sticks And Stones” to “Soften The Blows” and the achingly beautiful title track, which evoke the ease of an impromptu back porch jam session.

“Just over two years ago, I went to England to attempt to write another record after finding myself in a considerably disheartened and uninspired state creatively. Over an eight-month period, I wrote 30 songs. I was fortunate to be able to write with some incredible artists and singers such as Richard Hawley (from Pulp), Ed Harcourt, Sacha Skarbek and Fran Healy (from Travis), to name a few,” recalls Lisa Marie Presley. “Nothing was planned or contrived in any way and out of it came a very organic record that was always inside of me and that I am incredibly proud of. It was a dream come true and such an honor when T Bone liked the songs and produced and played on the record.”

“When songs from Lisa Marie Presley showed up at my door, I was curious. I wondered what the daughter of an American revolutionary music artist had to say. What I heard was honest, raw, unaffected and soulful. I thought her father would be proud of her. The more I listened to the songs, the deeper an artist I found her to be. Listening beyond the media static, Lisa Marie Presley is a Southern American folk music artist of great value,” says T Bone Burnett.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Lisa Marie Presley's New Album Produced By Burnett

16th March 2012


0Comments | Comment on this Article

Lisa Marie Presley is set to release her first album in seven years - with a little help from critically-acclaimed producer T-Bone Burnett.

The singer has been quietly working on her third album Storm and Grace and was thrilled when in-demand hitmaker Burnett agreed to produce and play on a few tracks.

She says, "Nothing was planned or contrived in any way and out of it came a very organic record that was always inside of me and that I am incredibly proud of.

"It was a dream come true and such an honor when T Bone liked the songs and produced and played on the record".

And Burnett insists music fans will be impressed by what Presley has to offer.

He says, "When songs from Lisa Marie Presley showed up at my door, I was curious. I wondered what the daughter of an American revolutionary music artist had to say.

"What I heard was honest, raw, unaffected and soulful. I thought her father would be proud of her.

"The more I listened to the songs, the deeper an artist I found her to be.

Listening beyond the media static, Lisa Marie Presley is a Southern American folk music artist of great value". Storm and Grace, the follow-up to 2005's Now What, will be released in May (12).

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Storm & Grace

With all the hoopla that has surrounded her, it’s easy to forget that Lisa Marie Presley is at heart a simple Southern girl whose earliest musical memories are of obsessively listening to 45’s in her bedroom at Graceland and of her dad catching her singing into a hairbrush in front of a mirror at the age of three.

The Memphis-born Presley reclaims those roots on her new album Storm and Grace — an Americana-inspired showcase for her songwriting talent and smoldering alto voice. Produced with elegant restraint by 12-time Grammy Award-winner T Bone Burnett, Storm and Grace is a marked departure from Presley’s previous albums, 2003's gold-certified To Whom It May Concern and 2005's Now What, which both debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart, “I love the songs, but I think I was hiding behind a lot of sonic layers because it was scary to go out there,” Presley says. “It’s easier to bury yourself in the noise so you don't stand out. This album is a lot more stripped-down and naked, both musically and lyrically.”

The album’s rootsy golden tone is set immediately with the opening track “Over Me,” with its echoey guitar line, burping bassline, shuffling backbeat, and lyrics that lament a lover who’s replaced her, while the ominous, swampy lead single "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" and the pedal-steel and mandolin-driven title track sound like they could have been recorded during an impromptu back-porch jam session.

Presley’s previous albums did, however, enable her to work through the rebelliousness she was feeling when she launched her career as a singer-songwriter in 2003. “I was angry at all that I was potentially up against — all the expectations — and I was puffing myself up as a protective mechanism,” she says. “At the same time, I was being pushed by the team around me to be a pop star, and to do all these crazy things that I really didn’t want to do.”

After completing a well-received tour to support Now What, Presley retreated from the music industry, relocating to the English countryside with her husband and young twin daughters and shedding the people and things she felt had demoralized her. “I got rid of a lot of the toxicity around me, but I also lost a lot of my drive and love for songwriting,” she says. “The creativity was kind of wrung out of me.”

Not wanting to abandon her craft, and after gentle prodding from her new manager Simon Fuller, Presley agreed, in the summer of 2009, to sit down with some new songwriting collaborators, who included three Brits: Sacha Skarbek (who’s written with Adele and Jason Mraz among others), and singer-songwriters Ed Harcourt and Richard Hawley, who is also a member of Pulp. “There was no agenda,” she says. “I wasn't trying to write a hit or to please any particular audience. I was just enjoying the process of being creative with great people who really love music.” The first song to emerge was a gentle ballad called “Weary,” which Presley wrote with Hawley. “That one turned the tide and sparked the whole sound of the record,” she says. Over an eight-month period, Presley wrote 28 songs including “Storm and Grace” and “How Do You Fly This Plane?” with Hawley; “Un-Break” and “Close To The Edge” with Skarbek; and “Soften The Blows” and “Over Me” with Harcourt.

Taken as a whole, Storm and Grace is a unflinchingly honest piece of work from this songwriter, who, though known for her tough frankness, has managed to create a tender, consoling thread that runs throughout the album.Weary" may concern a relationship that didn't work out, but it is suffused with a genuine warmth, as Presley sings: "I will always love you/you can move on, dear."

For Presley, the album’s conciliatory theme grew out of wanting to have peace in her life after a period of turmoil and letting go of what no longer suited her. “There were a few years there where everything around me had fallen apart,” she says. “All the things that had become my foundation were gone and I had to shed a lot of skin. I found myself really vulnerable afterward and that's what birthed the album’s vibe. It’s me without any attitude or anger at a time of rediscovery.” "

Impressed with Presley’s songs, Fuller sent the demos to producer and musician T Bone Burnett, who is known for his work with such artists as Allison Krauss and Robert Plant, B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Elton John and Leon Russell, and scores of others. “I got a call that T Bone really liked them and wanted to meet with me,” Presley says. “When I saw him, he said, ‘I don’t want to do a big song and dance. I really like the record and I’d love to produce it.’”

“When Lisa Marie’s songs arrived, I was curious,” Burnett says. “I wondered what the daughter of an American revolutionary music artist had to say. What I heard was honest, raw, unaffected, and soulful. I thought her father would be proud of her. The more I listened to the songs, the deeper an artist I found her to be. Listening beyond the media static, Lisa Marie Presley is a Southern American folk music artist of great value.”

“It makes me feel really good to hear him say that because I know he means it,” Presley says. “His enthusiasm and support gave me a lot of confidence. His even doing this project and bringing in his musicians [who include drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Dennis Crouch, guitarists Jackson Smith and Michael Lockwood, and keyboardists Keefus Green and Patrick Warren] injected me with new life. They were all outstanding.”

Presley is also glad to have a new label home, Universal Republic, which will release Storm and Grace on May 15th. “I have a new team around me, and none of the things that brought me down before,” she says, adding that although she is nervous about how Storm and Grace will be received, the joy of knowing that she’s connecting with an audience makes it all worth it.

“I’m compelled to do this because I’m a music lover and I feel that music is so important in the world. That’s what drives me — pouring your heart and soul into something and hoping that it can change someone’s life in some way. I’m looking forward to performing live and interacting with people who are there for the music and nothing else. Getting that instant reaction is the best part.”

Amazon

Lisa Marie Presley with Limited* Autographed CD Booklet!

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]



Pre-Order the upcoming release, Storm & Grace or Storm & Grace: Deluxe Edition, by Lisa Marie Presley and get a limited* autographed CD Booklet with purchase!

With all the hoopla that has surrounded her, it's easy to forget that Lisa Marie Presley is at heart a simple Southern girl whose earliest musical memories are of obsessively listening to 45's in her bedroom at Graceland and of her dad catching her singing into a hairbrush in front of the mirror at age three.

The Memphis-born Presley reclaims those roots on her new album, Storm & Grace, an American-inspired showcase for her songwriting talent and smoldering alto voice. Produced with elegant restraint by 12-time Grammy Award-winner T-Bone Burnett, Storm & Grace is a marked departure from Presley's previous albums, 2003's gold-certified To Whom It May Concern and 2005's Now What, which both debuted in The Top 10 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. This album is a lot more stripped-down and naked, both musically and lyrically.

*Offer valid only with purchase of Storm & Grace or Storm & Grace: Deluxe Edition. This special offer is valid for domestic (U.S.) orders only. Pre-ordered CDs shipping with promotional items are limited to (5) per customer. Booklets will be available while supplies last, newburycomics.com will post information when autographed booklets are sold out.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Lisa Marie Presley ‏ @LisaPresley

Pre-order and listen to snippets from "Storm & Grace" NOW at iTunes! [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] (Regular) and smarturl.it/lisapresleyDEL

Music Review: Lisa Marie Presley - Storm & Grace

Lisa Marie Presley was 35 when her first album was released, 2003’s To Whom It May Concern. Her debut’s success was followed two years later with Now What. Again, Presley impressed critics and music buyers alike for her mature and earthy material. However, Presley let it be known she felt she was being pulled in directions she didn’t want to go. She needed time and inspiration to restart her creative juices. Then announcements for her forthcoming Storm & Grace suggested her 2012 return would be a major departure for Presley. As it turns out, these claims are largely true. Her third album is not as hard-charging as her previous releases, and it is far more “organic,” to use Presley’s own description.

But Storm & Grace isn’t just a stripped-down “roots” album, with players simply laying down good grooves behind a singer. Thanks immeasurably to producer T Bone Burnett, the musical settings maintain a unified moody tone throughout the 11 songs. The set is full of subdued echo, haunting guitar lines, and the ambiance of a live session trying to capture both the cerebral and emotional elements in each song. Presley’s lyrics balance both the dark and the hopeful, her painful trials and hard-won triumphs, a few hellos and many goodbyes. In other words, storm and grace.

The principal players include guitarists Burnett, Jackson Smith, Michael Lockwood, Blake Mills, drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Dennis Crouch, and keyboard player Keefus Green. Presley also sought out various songwriting collaborators who provide their own dimensions to the tracks they contributed to. For example, Ed Harcourt helped write, and sang back-up vocals for the opener, “Over Me.” It’s ominous verses and poppy chorus sketch a story about a woman reflecting about being replaced by someone else, a recurring image throughout the album. Presley, Harcourt, and James Hogarth shaped “Soften the Blows” in which the singer becomes a down-and-dirty chanteuse supported by a throbbing stand-up bass. It’s a song asking whomever is in charge to please do what the title asks for when the road gets rough. The same trio co-wrote a song about suffering through a day with a “Storm Of Nails,” one of the albums most affirming numbers, despite lyrics about needing a hammer when the hard rain comes down.

Sacha Skarbek is another musical partner on a number of selections. These include the laid-back country of “Close to the Edge,” in which Presley sings about not going where you shouldn’t with lines like “You go to him like a mosquito to skin.” Echoing guitar, this time from Burnett, continues the dark support for a composition from Presley, Skarbek, and James Bryan McCollum titled “You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet.” Here, Presley shows her seasoned alto voice can sustain the long notes as she warns she’s a “disruption to your corruption...I’m a bit transgressive and suppressive as well.” Then Presley, Skarbek, and Luke Potashnick offer two songs, including the smoky “So Long” with the lyricist trapped in a corrupt city, saying goodbye to someone who found her inadequate. The same team provided equally intriguing lines in “Un-Break,” which borders on the neo-psychedelic. The chorus reads:

I’ve got run over by my own parade
I’ve suffocated in the beds I’ve made
I’ve cut my feet on all the glass that I break
Still trying to find a way
To get what’s broken
To un-break

The psychedelics are even more evident in the cerebral “Sticks And Stones” wherein the singer tells someone they can take her place as they’d probably do it better anyway, an echo of the sentiments in “Over You.” Pulp’s Richard Hawley is co-composer of three numbers, including the slow and beautiful “Weary,” where Presley tells a lover he’s free to move on without regrets. “How Do You Fly This Plane?” is a metaphorical title about a lyricist seeking answers to unanswerable questions. The set concludes with one of the more traditionally set numbers, Presley/Hawley’s Nashville-flavored love song “Storm& Grace.” For the finale, the singer is “blown away” by her lover’s storm and grace, asking only that he put on the brakes and slow down a bit.

Storm & Grace is soulful on several levels—the style of the vocals, Burnett’s musical arrangements, and the depth of the material. While every song deals with surviving pain of one kind or another, the tone is typically one of reconciliation, even if all the victories aren’t easily won. For example, “Forgiving,” co-written with Steve Booker, asks for the secrets of forgiveness as that’s hard to do. But these very secrets are scattered throughout the songs in which Presley waves goodbye to the past, which is full of unworthy lovers and glaring flaws within herself.

So Storm & Grace isn’t a disc to pep up your party, but it is one worth repeated listening. If it’s surprising, that’s probably due to comparisons with her two previous releases and the fact that the attempt here was far more artistic than commercial. Lisa Marie has her own blues to sing and she delivers them with style and grace. This is one Presley very much in the building.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Storm & Grace ''Over me'' listen here: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Music News
Lisa Marie Presley to release ‘Storm & Grace’

The Memphis-born Presley reclaims those roots on her new album Storm and Grace - an Americana-inspired showcase for her songwriting talent and smoldering alto voice. Produced with elegant restraint by 12-time Grammy Award-winner T Bone Burnett, Storm and Grace is a marked departure from Presley\'s previous albums, 2003\'s gold-certified To Whom It May Concern and 2005\'s Now What, which both debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard\'s Top 200 ...more

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Lisa Marie Presley is set to release her third studio album, ‘Storm & Grace,’ on May 15th and has several appearances planned to help promote the new album – including stops on “Good Morning America,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," and “American Idol.”


The album, which is available for pre-order now on the iTunes Store, is Presley's first in five years and marks her Universal Republic/XIX Recordings debut. Produced with elegant restraint by 12-time GRAMMY winner T Bone Burnett, Storm & Grace is an unflinchingly honest piece of work.
With its rootsy, Americana vibe, it is, she acknowledges, a departure from her previous albums, 2003's Gold-certified ‘To Whom It May Concern’ and 2005's ‘Now What,’ which both debuted in the Top 10 on The Billboard's 200.
In a press release, Presley stated: "This album is a lot more stripped-down and naked, both musically and lyrically. It's me without any attitude or anger at a time of rediscovery."
Presley is scheduled to perform the lead single, "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," at the legendary Sun Studios in her hometown of Memphis, TN, on Tuesday, May 15 during her "Good Morning America" segment. She will appear on "American Idol" May 17th, "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" May 21st, and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" May 22nd.
Presley will be signing copies of ‘Storm & Grace’ at Sun Studios in Memphis on Monday, May 14, starting at 7pm. On Thursday, May 17, American Express will present "An Evening with Lisa Marie Presley" at the GRAMMY Museum's Clive Davis Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. After an interview Presley will take questions and perform a selection of songs from the album.


[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

"This album is a lot more stripped-down and naked, both musically and lyrically. It's me without any attitude or anger at a time of rediscovery." LMP