{"id":17217,"date":"2017-04-26T23:13:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T06:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=17217"},"modified":"2017-04-28T14:43:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T21:43:25","slug":"lisa-bouchelle-with-john-popper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2017\/04\/lisa-bouchelle-with-john-popper\/","title":{"rendered":"LISA BOUCHELLE with JOHN POPPER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VIDEO PREMIERE<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>Musician:\u00a0<strong>LISA BOUCHELLE \u2013 with JOHN POPPER<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Music Video:\u00a0 \u201c<strong>Only the Tequila Talkin\u2019<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/06VbgC4rHBs?rel=0\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>INDIE AMERICANA SINGER LISA BOUCHELLE FEATURES BLUES TRAVELER\u2019S JOHN POPPER ON THE SINGLE \u201cONLY THE TEQUILA TALKIN\u2019\u201d\u2014WITH 500,000 PLAYS ON SPOTIFY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LISA BOUCHELLE (with JOHN POPPER) Web-Exclusive Interview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>with\u00a0<em>M Music &amp; Musicians<\/em>\u00a0magazine publisher, Merlin David<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17238\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17238\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17238 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-9.jpg\" alt=\"LISA BOUCHELLE\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-9.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-9-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LISA BOUCHELLE<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>How did the EP <em>Lipstick Tomboy<\/em> evolve?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We put this collection of songs together as a bundle that was digitally downloadable through Amazon, iTunes. We picked four songs to provide variety. The song \u201cOnly the Tequila Talkin\u2019\u201d was a duet with John Popper from Blues Traveler. It\u2019s a song I wrote with John Eddie. We asked John (Popper), and he seemed really into it. It\u2019s a fun song, a drinking song. I went out to Seattle to record it. We have a remake Gordon Lightfoot\u2019s \u201cIf You Could Read My Mind\u201d\u2014one of my favorite songs. \u201cHeart versus Mind\u201d is a song I wrote with Jeff Trott [Sheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks, Colbie Caillat]\u2014out in LA. It\u2019s a song I wrote about when your heart arguing with your mind. I thought about so many people I know. With Jeff Trott road testing the song, so many people were able to relate to that concept. Business or love, your mind tells you one thing, but your heart tells you something else. I felt like the EP needed the song. So much of my writing is introspective, and I wanted to do something fun. \u201cLuv is Supposed 2B Fun\u201d has a steel drum, and it\u2019s a party kind of thing. Yes, love is complicated but just have fun with it. It\u2019s a light song. We tracked the songs on the East Coast, and out in LA and Seattle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there a full album coming soon?<\/strong><br \/>\nRight now, it\u2019s just the EP. We do have these songs and others featured on a Fan Club-only cd called <em>A Whole Lot of Highway<\/em>\u201410 songs. In the bridge of the title song, it references a mixed up Lipstick Tomboy hitting the scene\u2014which refers to me. I thought it was a cool description. I\u2019ve done so much touring\u2014some is glamorous at times, but the first tour I did was in my car\u201412,000 miles. I opened for Blues Traveler in 2007, and I drove it. Even though it was glamourous when I was on stage, I was driving and trying to fend for myself\u2014living out of canned goods. That\u2019s really the tomboy aspect of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the idea of \u201c<\/strong><strong>Only the Tequila Talkin\u2019\u201d come to you?<\/strong><br \/>\nI wanted to write a song with John Eddie. I\u2019d been opening for him locally, and working with him, and he said, \u2018Yeah, let\u2019s write something together.\u2019 He\u2019s out of Nashville, and he wrote \u201cLowlife\u201d for Kid Rock. He was writing all these clever hooks. It just came to me, \u2018It was only the tequila talkin\u2019, shoulda took it with a grain of salt.\u2019 So I called John and said, \u2018Listen to this hook\u2014it sounds like something you would write.\u2019 And he said, \u2018I can\u2019t believe I didn\u2019t write it.\u2019 We got together and wrote the song. He\u2019s so poetic\u2014such a good writer. He came up with the line in the second verse: \u2018Coyote ugly on the SpectraVision in the not so Super 8.\u2019 Since I couldn\u2019t top that, I wrote: \u2018He said the sex would be amazin\u2019 but it really wasn\u2019t that great.\u2019 (<em>Laughs<\/em>)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17237\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17237\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17237 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-3b.jpg\" alt=\"LISA BOUCHELLE\" width=\"660\" height=\"990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-3b.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-3b-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-3b-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LISA BOUCHELLE<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>When did you write \u201cTequila?\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nJust before the first record. The first version didn\u2019t have enough harmony or interaction. We needed to remix it with a fun beat and maybe some handclaps. The song got a lot of attention when I was playing it live. We felt the time was right because it\u2019s a chick singing a drinking song, and it\u2019s a fun song. A song like this, now, is rare. In the old days, with Kitty Wells, it might have happened, but not now in modern country. But we did it, and it\u2019s doing so well on Spotify. We\u2019re so happy people are digging the song. And the video is an old time western scene, like <em>Bonanza<\/em>\u2014it\u2019s really fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did John Popper bring to this song?<\/strong><br \/>\nHe\u2019s got that attitude. You can give him a line to sing, and he makes it his own. With his voice\u2014he\u2019s so real about it. He brings his own perspective to everything he sings. And the harmonica playing\u2014is like no one else. He brings so much life, especially to a fun song like this one. We knew each other from the tour. They took me under their wing. They would have me up on stage every night, and we\u2019d be singing songs like \u201cThe Joker,\u201d and people would say \u2018you both have such good chemistry together on stage.\u2019 That helps the song sound real and authentic. The video represents how we perform live, and how much fun we have. He\u2019s from that jam band world, and they are all about living in the moment on these live shows. He and I have so much fun performing it live. We had a good time recording it in Seattle. The Blues Traveler drummer, Brendan Hill, played on the track. I\u2019m hoping we can perform it this year at some bigger venues.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17236\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17236\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17236 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-4b.jpg\" alt=\"LISA BOUCHELLE\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-4b.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-4b-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LISA BOUCHELLE<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Who inspired you to write songs?<\/strong><br \/>\nA lot of musicians inspired me, but also my mother who wrote poetry, and my father\u2014who was a singer. I just got that bug. I took lots of vocal lessons, but before that I learned to sing from my Dad when I was a little tyke. I loved to sing, and with my mother I was exposed to poetry books, and music like Crosby Stills &amp; Nash, Neil Young, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Simon &amp; Garfunkel\u2014all these poetic writers. They created images in my mind just by hearing their stories. The influence of that music is still so prevalent in my writing. My fans appreciate it. (<em>Laughs<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>You sang back-up for a lot of people.<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019ve opened and toured with Meatloaf, Ted Nugent, Blues Traveler, America. I sang back-up for Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper and others. It\u2019s been the most valuable education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about a time you recorded or played live on stage with a musical hero.<\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em>When I was a kid, I sang along with the radio. My Mom would play Bon Jovi stuff, and I would sing along to it. I used to think, \u2018You know, our voices really blend\u2014and we should do a duet sometime.\u2019 I thought, \u2018When I meet him, I\u2019ll tell him.\u2019 What kid doesn\u2019t think stuff like that? We were up at a concert in Sayreville NJ, where Jon was performing for a huge philanthropic event\u2014a charity his wife works with. Each of us was assigned a song, and when I got a chance to do my solo, he said, \u2018Do you want to do a duet with me on Who Says You Can\u2019t Go Home?\u2019 That was such a big hit at the time, and when I was up there\u2014I couldn\u2019t believe I was actually singing with Jon Bon Jovi. (<em>Laughs<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17235 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-5b.jpg\" alt=\"LISA BOUCHELLE\" width=\"660\" height=\"990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-5b.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-5b-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-5b-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You said your Dad sang. Did he do anything with music?<\/strong><br \/>\nHe had stage fright, but he changed my entire life. I feel like I\u2019m going to cry because both my parents passed away. He didn\u2019t do a lot with his singing\u2014in terms of performing live. But he truly changed my life. He was supposed to sing live with me just before he passed away. I was up in the Village in New York. We were doing a little bus trip. I was 17, and I convinced my Dad to sing \u201cBridge Over Troubled Waters.\u201d His voice was gorgeous. (<em>Sighs<\/em>) He had heart issues in the past, and just a week before we were going to sing together, he passed away. But I know they are still looking down\u2014and watching me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your creative process for writing songs?<\/strong><br \/>\nSongs come in different ways. But I get into a mode. I can push myself into that mode in this busy world. I can shut everything off and usually by the second song\u2014it starts to flow. But sometimes it just takes over me, and that\u2019s when I get the best results. If I\u2019m lying in bed, and a thought comes to me\u2014I get my guitar. If a song wakes you up, you need to take the time. (<em>Laughs<\/em>) Usually it\u2019s a line of lyrics attached to a melody or at least a meter or some kind of rhythm. The guitar helps it flow, and I flesh out the song. If sad, I might go with minor chords. Or dreamy, open chords. It takes shape, and I usually finish it the third time around. I don\u2019t nitpick a song. I feel songs are floating in the air, and most writers are just there\u2014to channel the songs. As an artist, it comes through you. I was influenced by early musicians, like Neil Young.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like they didn\u2019t make things fit into a cookie cutter mold. If you search too hard for a lyric, you might lose the original intent. Sometimes it\u2019s better to leave things alone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17232 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-6.jpg\" alt=\"LISA BOUCHELLE\" width=\"528\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-6.jpg 528w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-6-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us one experience where something unique inspired you to write a song.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen I watched the movie <em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/em>, where he\u2019s aging backwards. It\u2019s not as well-known as some of my other songs on <em>Bleu Room with a Red Vase<\/em>. It has a string section by Lorenza Ponce from Bon Jovi\u2019s band, and it\u2019s real dreamy. The song is about meeting someone again, on the way back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What songwriting tip would you like to offer?<\/strong><br \/>\nFollow your instincts. All of us hear songs inspired by movies or different places, but it will flow through each artist in a unique way. Don\u2019t try to use a template or put it into a specific format. Let it filter through you. Most artists who influenced me have been unique. If it sounds a little different\u2014let it stay unique. Don\u2019t overthink your instincts because each person has their own thing to offer. And that\u2019s good.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17231 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-7.jpg\" alt=\"LISA BOUCHELLE\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-7.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-7-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What instrument<\/strong><strong>\/equipment can you not live without?<\/strong><br \/>\nI like my Ovation guitar very much, and my writing is influenced by it. I write a lot on it, and I play it more because it has a thinner neck, and because of its action. It\u2019s an acoustic-electric guitar, so it lends itself to songs like the theme song I wrote for my TV show, <em>Rock Star Kitchen<\/em>. I host that show. The song is all bar chords, and I never would have written it in C#m if it wasn\u2019t for the neck of that guitar. My Ovation actually influences the songs I write. When I\u2019m on tour, my Ovation never feeds back. Sitting on the sofa, it might not have the resonance, but when I\u2019m an opening act\u2014on stage\u2014it never feeds back. So I can concentrate on my vocal sound, and relax. I just love my Ovation Guitar! (<em>Laughs<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any other guitar?<\/strong><br \/>\nSometimes I play an Alvarez, it\u2019s a fuller body sound. When I\u2019m playing songs by Johnny Cash or Kris Kristofferson, or a story song like \u201cWhere You Are\u201d (for my Mom)\u2014where you have a lot of bass notes or bass runs, it just has this full body, old time Nashville sound. It\u2019s pretty cooperative on the feedback aspect, but it doesn\u2019t have the buttery feeling like the neck of the Ovation. It has a beautiful resonance. I also love my Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any other equipment?<\/strong><br \/>\nShure microphones\u2014I love my Shure Beta 87 cardioid, not the hyper cardioid. Oh, and my TC-Helicon harmonizer pedal that I use in my solo shows. When I step on that, it really brings out the choruses of my songs. I love my Danelectro bass\u2014it sparkles, it\u2019s silver, and I love the sound.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17230 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-8.jpg\" alt=\"LISA BOUCHELLE\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-8.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-8-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What PRO are you with, and how do they help a songwriter\/artist like you?<\/strong><br \/>\nASCAP. They\u2019ve always been on time\u2014sending me checks, and they respond when I have any questions. It helps to keep all my songs logged in. They have a lot of resources. My manager, Hal, will know more. He\u2019s always got stuff brewing. He\u2019s a good manager.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 5 Musicians\u00a0who inspired you to become a musician?<\/strong><br \/>\nStevie Nicks, the Beatles, and storytellers like Joan Baez\u2014really inspired me. The way she could tell a story and the guitar chords behind it. One singer with a guitar, telling stories\u2014painting pictures\u2014I wanted to be that person who\u2019s able to change the energy in a room\u2014whether it\u2019s an arena or a small room. They bring everyone together for a moment., and people forget about everything else. All these people, with different lives, are all together\u2014with this one shared experience. One voice\u2014one singer with a guitar controlling all that. It inspired me the most. There are old country artists like Waylon Jennings\u2014the way you can hear the cry in his voice, his emotions. When I was a little kid, I\u2019d wonder, \u2018How will I do that?\u2019 With the old country records, they were so genuine. People like Sheryl Crow\u2014that LA fresh sound\u2014that\u2019s what I wanted to do. I wanted to use the older stuff to influence me, and bring this new sound that\u2019s uniquely me. In time, you find yourself\u2014your sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your Top 5 favorite albums of all time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Disraeli Gears<\/em> (1967) \u2013 Cream<\/p>\n<p><em>The Fame Monster<\/em> (2009) \u2013 Lady Gaga<\/p>\n<p><em>Belladonna<\/em> (1981) \u2013 Stevie Nicks<\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve Always Been Crazy<\/em> (1978) \u2013 Waylon Jennings<\/p>\n<p><em>Rosebud Bullets<\/em> (2007) \u2013 Myshkin\u2019s Ruby Warblers<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17229 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-2.jpg\" alt=\"LISA BOUCHELLE\" width=\"660\" height=\"844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-2.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-2-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-2-300x383.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best advice someone has given you regarding your music career.<\/strong><br \/>\nMy management team always says: the cream always rises to the top. Whenever I try to adjust my music by thinking \u2018Maybe I should make it more pop,\u2019 or when I get frustrated\u2014that advise helps me stay on the straight and narrow. It helped me find my intimate, talking voice. Some call it the bedroom voice. Don\u2019t bark the song at people, even if you have to take it down a step\u2014make it more conversational, more intimate. When you\u2019re in the car, and you\u2019re listening to songs where you feel like the person on the radio is talking to you. It\u2019s good advice for my Americana music. That was valuable to me, and I can hear it on the last couple of records.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best advice you\u2019d like to give upcoming musicians.<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019ve been on stage entertaining people since I was four years old. My parents would argue a lot, and when I would sing\u2014everything would be happy. I went on stage as a little kid, at a campground talent show. I remember they put me on a picnic table because I was so much smaller than the other contestants. I sang \u201cAmerica the Beautiful.\u201d My grandma made this red, white and blue outfit. Everyone started clapping, and I won the talent show. I remember thinking, I made everyone happy\u2014this is what I want to do\u2014something positive and powerful. And I never changed my mind. I\u2019ve been singing so long. It\u2019s never been an <em>American Idol<\/em> thing. No instant fame. It\u2019s a job. I\u2019m an entrepreneur. I moved up from doing local coffeehouses, to sending my records to a local writer who knew a management company, and I never ever stopped. I just moved forward. The TV show we got took a year and a half. Then we ended up being on a network where we got the highest ratings for original content\u2014for <em>Rock Star Kitchen<\/em>. It\u2019s been building one step after the next. I don\u2019t feel like my career started only when my two albums got national distribution. I started when I was four.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17228 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-10.jpg\" alt=\"LISA BOUCHELLE\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-10.jpg 533w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-10-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-10-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where were you when you first heard one of your songs on the Radio?<\/strong><br \/>\nI just did a gig at the shore. I was driving home and I had to pull over because it freaked me out. I thought, \u2018I don\u2019t want to get into an accident here.\u2019 I was on 195, headed west when (<em>laughs<\/em>) \u201cHeaven on Credit\u201d came on the radio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s next?<\/strong><br \/>\nWe\u2019re really focusing on the EP\u2014with all the strength that \u201cTequila\u201d is getting. I\u2019m hoping something really tremendous happens. We\u2019re planning a tour this summer\u2014maybe an opening act where I\u2019ll be out for a couple of months. I can\u2019t wait for the traveling and the live performances. Of course, I\u2019m always writing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How often do you write?<\/strong><br \/>\nUsually one week a month I get prolific. I always have ideas floating around, and I put them all together, and I usually write several songs a month. It\u2019s usually a certain week. There is too much noise in the world. You have to find or make the time. I may write three songs at a time, and maybe one or two I keep. Sometimes, a song hits. Other times I road test them at one of my local shows\u2014where I learn something different about the song.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17226\" style=\"width: 542px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17226\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17226 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-12.jpg\" alt=\"LISA BOUCHELLE with JOHN POPPER\" width=\"532\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-12.jpg 532w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-12-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LISA BOUCHELLE with JOHN POPPER<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>[We talked with John Popper:]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about working with Lisa on \u201cOnly the Tequila Talkin\u2019.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Popper: The thing that I always think of, when I think of Lisa, is how hard she works. I saw her with her cooking show, as well as with this album, and really all of her albums. She starts with almost nothing, and makes something out of it by her sheer will. She\u2019s very talented, but she also just has a vision, and makes it happen. With this record, she knew she had to get a record made, she enlisted the help of our drummer Brendan [Hill] for the track, he drummed on it, and recorded the part I was on. I came in, and it was just a fun track. The premise of it was really cool. But I knew it was going to be a great thing because of her determination. I don\u2019t know if I know anybody who is as determined as she is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you put your own spin into it?<br \/>\n<\/strong>John: I tried to think like I\u2019m drunk. (<em>Laughs<\/em>) I go back to the song because I\u2019m singing this character where she and I talk about a mediocre sexual experience, and we\u2019re drunk in a hotel. The tequila did most of the work. I\u2019ve had plenty of those. (<em>Laughs<\/em>) So you just remember, if it\u2019ll let you. I guess, you let the tequila do the talkin\u2019. (<em>Laughs<\/em>)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17225\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17225\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17225 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-13.jpg\" alt=\"LISA BOUCHELLE with JOHN POPPER\" width=\"660\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-13.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-13-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LISA BOUCHELLE with JOHN POPPER<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your harmonica playing.<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn: I was a Hohner Special 20 man all my life, and then Fender approached me to make a John Popper model. So I have one of those. They worked with Seydel , a really great old German company. It\u2019s a really awesome harmonica. Depending on the lightness I want, or how I want it to cut with the amps, I use both now. It really depends on the amp situation. The Fender one is much quieter, but the Hohner one isn\u2019t as precise. It really depends on what mood you\u2019re going for. It gives me another place to go. I was raised on Hohner, and for me it drives like a Porsche. It\u2019s hard to beat a Hohner. But I was looking for a signature harp\u2014and Fender made that happen. Shure microphones build a chassis for my mic rig, a plastic body, to hold all the wiring. It\u2019s a very bizarre looking microphone, and it\u2019s basically homemade\u2014and it works great.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about Lisa\u2019s work ethic.<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn: I remember the cooking show\u2014where we had it in some room. Looked like it was in some public building or school, and somehow she got the use of the room, and got the production company together. And again, I don\u2019t know what she had for a budget, but she came up with something to make it work. And it was a good little cooking show. We made chicken paprikash, if I remember. I didn\u2019t write this song, she wrote it with somebody else, but I got to sing it with her a whole bunch when she went on tour with me. It has a great back and forth camaraderie\u2014and that\u2019s written into the song. So it\u2019s easy to just fall into that part. I love the attitude she sing with. I love the way she sings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where can your new fans get more info and stay updated?<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/LisaBouchelle.com\" target=\"_blank\">LisaBouchelle.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17227\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17227\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17227 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-11.jpg\" alt=\"LISA BOUCHELLE with JOHN POPPER\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-11.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-11-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lisa-Bouchelle-11-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LISA BOUCHELLE with JOHN POPPER<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO PREMIERE Musician:\u00a0LISA BOUCHELLE \u2013 with JOHN POPPER Music Video:\u00a0 \u201cOnly the Tequila Talkin\u2019\u201d INDIE AMERICANA SINGER LISA BOUCHELLE FEATURES BLUES TRAVELER\u2019S JOHN POPPER ON THE SINGLE \u201cONLY THE TEQUILA TALKIN\u2019\u201d\u2014WITH 500,000 PLAYS ON SPOTIFY LISA BOUCHELLE (with JOHN POPPER) Web-Exclusive Interview with\u00a0M Music &amp; Musicians\u00a0magazine publisher, Merlin David How did the EP Lipstick Tomboy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7725],"tags":[8924,8925,1623,8926,1354,4123,6271,4430,8927,3592,1676,8928,8929,969,2476,8574,8930,6689,1694,8931,1689,8932,3724,7342,8933,8934,8920,8935,8936,3593,8937,8922,1879,8938,4497,8939,3869,1961,8921,8940,1597,7566,8941,3010,7978,8942,1082,8923,8943,8944,8945,8946,8948,8949,1197,3717,5704,8947,8950,8951,8724,1635,8952,1798,8953,8954,8955,3818,1550],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17217"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17240,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17217\/revisions\/17240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}