Lucky Penny by El Elle

Lucky Penny is Lisa Light aka El Elle’s second full-length album.

This collection is a culmination of a collaboration with SF artist, Merkley, who invented a songwriting methodology named “Ping” wherein each participant takes a turn choosing the chords, lyrics and melody and then adding linearly until it is complete. In addition to documenting the evolution of this process, it is also a diary of Lisa’s journey of uprooting from Oakland, CA in 2020 to the east coast to care for her mother for the last years of her life battling cancer. Along the way, she invited her father, Randy to join in the songwriting, and eventual recording of this highly emotional material. Quite a departure from her previous raucous and aggressively playful music in The Lovemakers and in her solo work, this album is entirely organic with simple, classic instrumentation and deeply thoughtful and subtle grace.

The album artwork features a much-memed photograph by David Henry Williams, entitled “Tiny Dancer” taken in 1984 in New Orleans of Lisa and Randy busking on the street. This photograph is featured in several museums in the Southeast. Having been raised by two musicians, this album is truly a full circle homage to the importance of music to the Light family. “End of the Story” features Laura Light in her final recording singing the refrain “I guess we’re screwed.” The album will be released on November 29h, the day after Thanksgiving, 2 years since she passed in the middle of the night at home.

Lisa Light is an Oakland based artist. Her first band, THE LOVEMAKERS enjoyed a loyal following and released four studio albums, including critically acclaimed "Times of Romance" on Interscope Records.
Ms. Light released EL ELLE, in 2011, and has continued to collaboratively perform with rotating musicians and dancers. Light also performs as Material Girl, a Madonna Tribute Band.

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