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My Wild West is Lissies third studio album; it is a celebration of new adventures to come as she moves back to the Midwest and waves goodbye to her life in California.

Lissies two previous albums, 2010s Catching a Tiger and 2013s Back to Forever, both hit Top 20 in the UK charts with the former record going Gold. My Wild West, recorded in Nashville with her producer Bill Reynolds (Band of Horses), her band in Ojai and executive producer Curt Schneider in his Studio City home, is Lissies most personal effort to date. Lissie recently purchased a 10-acre farm in a small town in Iowa her own field of dreams; busy converting the barn into a recording studio, getting used to her new pick-up truck and setting up beehives, she is visibly content in her new life, eager to take on each new adventure and challenge that presents itself.

Celebrating her newfound artistic freedom, Lissie found the moment I decided not to make an album was when I really started to make the album. That took all the pressure off. What emerged from that period was a cohesive, conceptual, musical whole. The songs turned out to be more personal because I wasnt adhering to a strict set schedule she explains.

My Wild West opens with Hollywood and closes with Ojai a fitting tribute to the state she has called home for more than a decade. As the album unfolds, we see a more confident Lissie, self-assured and coming into her own power. Her tales of triumph and self-propelled adventure were inspired by females close and far from home: her aunt who passed away from ALS (Sun Keeps Risin), Liberian peace activist and Nobel Prize winner Leymah Gbowee, subject of the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Daughters). Elsewhere, Shroud and Go For a Walk shed light of the yin-yang nature of Lissies personality, the first, a meditation on depression and isolation, the latter, a heartfelt affirmation of natures power of renewal.

With a career that has seen her open for renowned artist Lenny Kravitz (an early supporter), Tom Petty and even been asked to perform at Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moores wedding, Lissie has had a wealth of incredible experiences that have made her the confident and determined artist she is today. As she moves into the next journey, she laughs, Im in a really good place. In fact, Im already planning a follow-up album, My Mild Midwest.

Going back to her roots in more ways than one, Lissie has returned to touring as a solo act selling out Londons Union Chapel in 24 hours without any fanfare, Lissie will hit the UK shores in December and has also announced a further London date for Feb 2016.