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September 9 2004

Mabou singer-songwriter Lisa Cameron worked closely with Cormier on first release
by Laura Graham, Halifax Herald

After two degrees, one diploma and years of waitressing and teaching jobs, Lisa Cameron finally came home to Cape Breton to start a music career.

She grew up playing traditional music as a hobby, but at 34, Cameron is releasing her own country-folk material.

"Maybe I'm not a good planner, things just kind of happened," she says. "I just wanted to do it."

She thanks her friends for a push in the right direction when they introduced her to award-winning multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter J.P. Cormier.

Cameron had seen the talented Cape Bretoner play, but she had never met him before visiting his house in Cap Le Moine with her friends. She decided to bring along a few songs she had recorded on her own.

"While he listened to it, I sat on the couch across from him," she says. "He had a yellow pad of paper and he was taking notes. I was cringing and holding my head in my hands."

As it turned out, Cormier liked her song called Disgusted.

"He said, 'I like that. Can you sing tonight? Do you want to record that tonight?' "

They went into Cormier's in-house studio and recorded the track in four hours. >> more