The Junior League Band 

releases their 5th album "Nowhere to Be" Saturday July 25, 2015  at the esteemed Birchmere Music Hall in Alexandria Virginia where lead singer, Lissy Rosemont, opened for Rosanne Cash in December 2009. The Junior League Band began in Washington, DC in 2007 and has toured the country performing it's unique female songstress, banjo lead Americana soul music on the festival and club circuit. After 4 full length albums written by Lissy Rosemont and guest songs from her Atlanta based brother, RedTag, the Junior League Band, with long time drummer Will Waikart, bassist Brandon Kalber, and guitarist John Lee, look to a few unsung Nashville B-sides for their 5th album, an EP, "Nowhere to Be," covering Hank Williams Jr.'s "I Came to Take the Hurting" and Webb Pierce's "More and More." 

    Lissy grew up hearing her late father's own take on Williams'  ballad at her family's fiddler's festival in North Carolina, Fiddler's Grove, where she plays every Memorial Day with his band, Blackgrass. Two musicians Lissy met in the fields at Fiddler's Grove, banjo player Dale Mills and dobroist Danny Hargis, join the Junior League Band for the first time on "Nowhere to Be." This addition marks the Junior League Band's 5th album "Nowhere to Be" distinctly Americana with fewer elements of rock and roll as before.

     Along Lissy's musical journey, she was introduced to Jim Avett (the Avett Brother's father) who had a knack for bringing new life to forgotten Nashville B-sides, including Webb Pierce's "More and More." The two considered a duet album together, but the timing was not right with Lissy and her husband, PBS Newshour Reporter Mike Melia, expecting their now 2 children. All studio plans came to an abrupt halt, including the duet album with Jim Avett. 

Along the musical way, Lissy was also introduced to the Magnetic Fields song "Born on a Train" (written by Stephin Merritt) while performing in her original band, the Rosemont Family Reunion. The brooklyn based lyrics reminded Lissy of "Sin City" by Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman, "Parsons, the overlooked, beautiful dreamer who sang Southern church songs to LA sinners." http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-socala22apr22-story.html. Born on a Train has remained on the Junior League Band's set lists since it's inception in 2007 but was never recorded until this soon to be released album "Nowhere to Be." Lissy is so fond of the song, they made their first video single for the album to the song while recording at the famed "Inner Ear Studio" in Washington, DC with engineer and producer TJ Lipple. Tom LeGro, former reporter for the PBS Newshour and now working for the Washington Post, shot the music video.

    Lastly, Lissy Rosemont added her own original song "You Don't Love Me Anymore," a dirge of love lost and a play on the fleeting heart. While the song spends most of its time suffering heartbreak from sudden unrequited romance, the listener is happily suprised when our broken hearted protagonist realizes that she no longer loves the one who no longer loved her. A play on our romantic ability to dive into the melodrama and revel in heartache only to pop up and move right on along to the next thing. "You Don't Love Me Anymore's" storyline is delivered in Lissy's signature whispered sultry alto, clarifying the grief strucken mood of the protagonist.

Join the Junior League Band as they release "Nowhere to Be" July 25, 2015 at the Birchmere Music Hall. "Nowhere to Be" is available to the public on July 25, 2015  online thru iTunes and Amazon, and available in print at juniorleagueband.com or in person at the Birchmere.