Singer songwriter, Liz Kennedy, playing piano and guitar, is a critically acclaimed recording artist and over the years has been developing her ever-unfolding identity as a quirky, often humorous and ever insightful storyteller committed to honesty and finding something unique to say. She is a fourth generation Californian and lives on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Her band has carefully honed their sound together and everyone in the band are renowned musicians and good friends, too.
Band:
Joel Jaffe guitars.dobro mandolin (The Flamin Groovies), Billy Johnsons drums (Maze) Hardy Hemphill keyboards, harmonica (Shania Twain), Omega Vocals (Van Morrison), Marc Levine (Bette Midler) Lorin Rowen guitar, Mandolin (Rowen Brothers), Guest Appearances: George Brooks, Eamonn Flynn, Tom Rigney, Sam Riney and The Nigerian High Life Singers
“Kennedy is a treasure, from her Janis Joplin/Melissa Etheridge like vocals, to the lyrical content to a culmination in songs that are instantly memorable. Speed Bump offers up one of the tastiest morsels of music to hit the airwaves.” LA Examiner
“Your voice is enchanting, the piano so lovely and the words so simple and strong.” Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone
“Kennedy’s supporters like to tag her as “Bonnie Raitt without the slide guitar”,…(she) sings from her piano bench with the subdued tone of an artist not seeking attention but earning it.” East Bay Express
“She reminded me of a female Leonard Cohen. I mean it’s just like really that kind of conviction about her own music and not pandering to what popular music is.” Taj Mahal
