Winners: @DebraPalermo @SmrtMnky
Tomorrow night (June 26th), Lisa Marie Presley (aka the princess of rock and roll) will take to the stage over at The Roxy (tickets are still available), she’s in town to promote her brand-new album Storm & Grace (watch her music video below for “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”). I’ve been a huge fan of Lisa Marie for years, I’m so excited to finally see her perform in person, I know it’s going to be a stellar show! My good friends from The Roxy (Los Angeles’ best small venue) gave me two pairs of tickets to toss out, so follow the instructions below, hopefully I’ll be seeing some of you guys tomorrow at the show, good luck!
To be entered for a chance to win a pair of tickets to see Lisa Marie Presley at The Roxy …
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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 & 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 & 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.”
