In Their Own Words: Lise Liddell, Tony Ramey and Craig Dillingham

Singer-songwriters Lise Liddell, Tony Ramey and Craig Dillingham perform In Their Own Words at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 3, 2015.

Lise Liddell
Laced with grace. It’s a deceptively complicated turn of phrase from Lise Liddell’s latest album, simply titled Laced. And prophetically, it describes Liddell in a searching, intuitive way.

Equally brassy and forgiving, Liddell is the type of attractive woman you’d find sitting to your right at some San Francisco saloon with a massive mahogany bar, where Kerouac would beckon his muse. She’s open and real and willing to ponder the topics that we all ponder. Life’s mountains and valleys. Love lost and found. Sex great and regretted. The wisest poems. The truest songs. And after a few drinks and more laughs, she’d push back from the bar and say, “Well, I have to go now.“ Not to the exit. But a small corner stage with her guitar where her angelic voice would strike sharp contrast to the gritty girl who was keeping pace with short bourbons. And at once, you find yourself enamored.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/liseliddell

Tony Ramey
Tony Ramey has always nuanced his music and songs with elements from many genres, but his latest effort, Soul Survivor, shows him evolving into an artist who defies classification. While he is composing songs that still explore country and country and western motifs (as in his Willie Nelson duet “The Bible, the Bottle, and the Gun”), soul, blues, and contemporary folk elements have begun to eclipse a style of music that most critics have labeled “traditional” country.

With gold and platinum records by artists like Trisha Yearwood, John Michael Montgomery, George Strait, and a host of others who have covered his material, and with BMI awards and more than fifteen years of professional writing behind him, Tony Ramey has proven himself as a songwriter, but the best is yet to come for those watching and listening to Tony while he proves himself as an artist in his own right.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tonyramey

Craig Dillingham
If you’re from Texas, Craig’s music will make you hom sick. If you’re not from the Lone Star state, hiw music will make you want to board the next plane to get there.

Dillingham has performed with his family musical group The Dillingham Sisters and later was  as an opening act for Ray Price, in addition to performing on the Louisiana Hayride. Five singles he wrote made the charts between 1983 and 1986, including “Have You Loved Your Woman Today.”

Craig’s debut album Almost Yesterday is the stuff mellow midnights and dancehall dreams are made of.