![]() ![]() “It’s important to learn how to tell a story,” Loeb said Wednesday while driving from Boulder to Lions to teach a songwriting workshop. Songwriters’ lyrics that sound like passages from their journal, Loeb said, seem like weak attempts at the craft. 10 with songs like “Lucky Me,” reflecting the sadness of something ending yet the joy of starting over, and “I Control the Sun,” examining the frustrations of not being able to change someone, Loeb deemed the tales prophetic rather than biographical. ![]() She believes it’s her job, as an artist, to create from scratch, drawing from her imagination rather than her personal life. Though the majority of her latest album was recorded prior to the breakup, and as it turns out, the intensely private musician tells everyone’s story but her own.Most of the songs, Loeb said, chronicle observations from the lives of characters in film scripts she has read. After all, she recently underwent a breakup with longtime boyfriend Dweezil Zappa. BEAVER CREEK – Listening to her new album, “The Way It Really Is,” woven with tracks about heartache and new beginnings, you’d think Lisa Loeb had written every musical morsel from the chambers of her own heart. ![]()
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