Artist description Liz writes and performs postmodern blues and damaged torch songs. A Cole Porter standard may get beautifully transformed as acoustic swing. You’ll detect influences from Memphis Minnie to PJ Harvey to Tom Waits. You’ll probably hear something familiar. You’ll definitely hear something unanticipated.

Music Style Postmodern blues

Musical Influences Memphis Minnie, Jimmy Hendrix, Cab Calaway, Tom Waits, my mother

Artist History One day, as a teenager living in rural Virginia, Liz Schnore found a beautiful '59 Gibson hollow body laying around the house -- and the unholy union of girl and guitar began. Heavily into punk at the time, Liz began cultivating a unique style and paid her dues in friends' basements playing covers of their hardcore heroes. In 1988, Liz co-founded the popular Pixies-meet-surf band Jane his Wife in Richmond, Virginia. During the same period of loud rock and hearing damage and fuckitall guitar spaz rock, Liz began playing her paradoxical and intimate solo performances around the city. After Jane His Wife parted ways, Liz continued playing solo and led, aided, or abetted a fistful of other jazz, experimental rock, and swing bands, including: The Liz & Duke Sextet, Ethyl Glare, Tennessee Jackson Ward, among others. Today, Liz Schnore resides in Brooklyn, NY and is working on new material to follow up the melancholy and melodic "Waterproof" EP -- a fine (albeit incomplete) example of things to come.

Group Members Liz Schnore

Instruments Vocals, Guitar, Organ, Percussion

Albums "Waterproof" - 2000

Location Brooklyn, NY - USA

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