“My favorite places to play are small theaters, performing arts centers, and also places like City Winery where they’re really set up for the audience to be comfortable and for the performers to have what they need, as well,” she continues. With her career so well-established, she says she’s happy to return to New York and perform at City Winery, which she describes to us (on a call from her current home in L.A.) as “a place where the audience can be comfortable and quietly eat their food while I get to play.” She went on to sign a record deal and has released several other hits, including “Do You Sleep?” and “I Do.” To date, she has released 15 studio albums – most recently, 2020’s A Simple Trick to Happiness. – the first time an artist without a recording contract ever achieved this feat. That song of hers became the lead single for the soundtrack and it instantly made her famous around the world. She got her big break when her neighbor, actor Ethan Hawke, helped her get her song, “Stay (I Missed You),” placed in the 1994 film Reality Bites, which went on to become a box office hit. Post-college, Loeb moved to New York City and continued working up her way up the ranks in the local club circuit. At the time, she was in a duo – Liz and Lisa – and she and her bandmate Elizabeth Mitchell regularly made the three-hour drive here so they could play at notable venues such as The Bitter End, CBGB, and Lone Star Roadhouse. She first began playing in New York during the mid-1980s when she was still in college at Brown University in Rhode Island. “It really is one of the main cities I that got my start in, so it’s always really amazing to come back.” When Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb returns to New York City to perform at City Winery on July 23, she says it will be something of a homecoming for her. Her work exudes, as she herself explains, both realism and optimism. Everyone from Dave Grohl to Sarah Silverman to New Found Glory has covered the beautiful work of this songstress – and rightfully so.
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