LISSIE Catching A Tiger (2010 UK 12-track vinyl LP - It would be easy to misconstrue Lissie. Slight and blonde, a pretty, guitar-playing slip-of-a-thing, you might easily take her for a sweet Midwestern girl, a freckled balladeer borne of milk and cookies and cornfields. More fool you. For all the flaxen hair and big blue eyes, this girl is smart and gutsy and tough, with a big old voice to match it. In the spring of 2006, she moved to LA and started her own night with musician friends at a bar called Crane's Hollywood Tavern in her neighbourhood, which she named Beachwood Rockers' Society. Little by little things seemed to come together; she recorded a five-track EP named 'Why You Runnin' with her friend Bill Reynolds of Band of Horses that caught something of a fire in the States last year. She headed to Nashville to record with Jacquire King [Kings of Leon]. What came out of it was the bulk of her debut album, 'Catching A Tiger'; 12 songs that range from bluesy-folk to unfettered pop and showcase both her remarkable voice and her songwriting chops)