Lilli Lewis
“The Henderson Sessions” is a nine song CD featuring socially conscious and inspirational original compositions and insightful interpretations of folk rock classics. Also included are fresh takes on traditional blues and jazz songs.
The album serves as an exquisite self-portrait with Lewis’ soulful, powerful vocals set to the barest of piano accompaniment. Co-produced by Lewis, with James “Jimbo” Walsh and Mark Bingham, the album takes its title from Walsh’s country recording studio built in Henderson, Louisiana.
Original songs on “The Henderson Sessions” are “Blue Rock,” which foretells the consequences of materialism if redemption isn’t found. Also featured is “Our Short Walk Through This Life,” a reminder about being kind and gracious to one another. “One Shoe,” with its jazzy R&B groove is based on a true story about a young immigrant soccer player and the one thing that gave him an advantage. In addition “Coffee Shop Girl,” which explores three women’s underlying motives for toting their guns. As devastating attacks on human-kind continue around the world, the album’s finale “Turn It Around” calls for personal responsibility and self-exploration by trying to make internal peace out of external chaos.
And a plethora of covers sure to delight:
Cover songs include a slow blues version of the Mississippi Sheiks tune “Sitting on Top of the World,”. Also included are a buoyant jazz-waltz interpretation of Blind Willie Johnson’s gospel blues song “Nobody’s Fault But Mine”. A haunting homage to Laura Nyro’s call to action hit “Save the Country” feels particularly topical. Anais Mitchell’s eerily prophetic “Why We Build the Wall” is a stunner also. As a result of all these fine performances The Henderson Sessions becomes an essential recording for jazz & blue
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