AWARDED BEST FEMALE VOCALIST IN BOTH 2005 & 2006 IN THE HOUSTON PRESS MUSIC AWARDS!
*Montrose Monitor's Podcast Interview of Lisa Novak*
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*Uncle Shag Interviews Lisa Novak*
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*Lisa wins Best Female Vocalist in 2006 - her Second Year in a Row!*
Houston has yet to see what will come of Lisa Novak's effort to raise her status from a local favorite to national icon...Read the full story
*Lisa wins the 2005 Houston Press Music Award for Best Female Vocalist*
Novak is another perennial club fave getting some just recognition after years in the trenches of obscurity. Despite her day job, she's maintained a long-standing Friday-night showcase at the Harp where her style -- soft alt-country mixed with savvy pop and jangly folk -- is a perfect fit...Read the full story
*Review of Tougher Skin in Maverick Magazine, a UK Publication*
Texan Lisa Novak certainly lives up to her latest album's title Tougher Skin, a powerful collection of ten well crafted country-folk songs...Read the full story
*Review of Tougher Skin in the Houston Press*
When Lisa Novak abruptly stopped playing with her longtime band Big Holiday in 2002, we wondered what would become of one of the more interesting roots-rock acts in town. While Novak and Big Holiday had never really garnered much of the public consciousness, those who follow the local scene saw the band as a comer with promise...Read the full story
*Review of Tougher Skin at Rockzilla.net*
Here in the nation's fourth largest city, we have a hard time keeping our genres separated or even much caring about separating them. Unlike your first grade teacher, we don't mind our performers getting a little messy with their coloring, jagging out across the lines, one crayola color overlapping another, the occasional stroke that goes against the pattern. As long as it's good, nobody much cares to judge whether the coloring is "messy." Perfect conditions for Houstonian Lisa Novak's Perfect Mess...Read the full story
*Lisa Novak & Melinda Mones win Best Folk/Acoustic at HP Music Awards*
While both of these talented women have bands and albums of their own, their regular Friday-night duo gigs at the Harp on lower Richmond have become one of the city's choicest easy-listening evenings. Accompanied by bassist John Haddad and ace sideman Mark Zeus, Novak and Mones manage to inject a higher-than-usual amount of energy and passion into acoustic, adult-situation original songs that are smart enough to make both of these women strong candidates for songwriter of the year...Read the full story
*Lisa's Review in the Houston Chronicle*
Lisa Novak's musical beginnings reek of family programming from years past. Her recollections of childhood could be assembled into a season's worth of wholesome entertainment. As the penultimate of six kids, Lisa and the Novak clan seemingly absorbed melodies though the amniotic fluid...Read the full story
ABOUT LISA...
Lisa grew up in Houston, TX, and came from a very musical family. Not
only did mother play piano in a band, her grandfather rocked Shiner, TX back in his day. Her dads cousin, Red Novak was well known amongst Houston musicians for selling guitars to Elvis as well as the locals.
Novak picked up her first guitar in the eighth grade and wrote music in high school but kept music as a hobby and pursued a career as a hairstylist. Today she owns and runs her salon in the trendy Montrose area of Houston by day while performing her songs at night.
In 1995, under a friends suggestion, she recorded her first music and assembled a band to tour and promote the songs. Although she and the band may perform regionally, Novak would love to have another artist record one of her songs.
As a perennial nominee in the Houston Press, Best of Houston Awards, Novak won the 2004 Best Folk/Acoustic Act with singer/songwriter Melinda Mones, and in 2005 Novak has won the title of Best Female Vocalist. She has also garnered recognition from Musician Magazine in 1995 through the Best Unsigned Band Contest and Billboard Magazine Song Contest awarded a certificate of achievement in 1998 for her song Make Believe. She has played in Austin, TX at the annual SXSW Music Conference as the Houston Press nominated her band for Best Pop/Rock and Best Folk in 2000. Her song Perfect Mess was also nominated for Song of the Year in 2002.
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Me too! Should be fun times. The weather will remind you of Houston inside The Hut! Swampy. I think I lost about 2 lbs of water playing there the other night.
Thanks for the tunes. They are great! Especially "Heartbreak Police". Man, that tune is cool!
Hey Lisa, Thanks to many nominations, my act is now on the ballot for "Best Local Song", and "Best Neo-Folk Act" in the Houston Press Music Awards. Please take a minute and vote now by clicking on the image below or going to http://houstonpress. com/polls/musicawards08/ Thanks, ~Lee
