Cassandra Lewis: 2024

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The voice of Cassandra Lewis is a powerful but agile instrument that stopped everyone in their tracks who was lucky enough to be around Studio A during her recent visit to FUV.

Following her stunning performance, Lewis told me that Nashville is the thirty-third city where she has lived, so naturally, she’s got a wealth of experience to inform her music and animate her lyrics.

It was a heartbreak that spurred on this new album, her second and major label debut, Lost in a Dream. While drawing a parallel between her ex and the man behind the curtain in "The Wizard of Oz," Lewis found a thematic through-line for her new songs and inspiration for the album's magnificent, poppy-filled cover photo too.

Lewis spoke about the remarkable circumstances that led to her signing to Elektra Records/Low Country Sound; writing songs with Nashville aces like Natalie Hemby and Anderson East; and recording with über-producer Dave Cobb at a new studio he set up in his native Savannah, Georgia.

This was Lewis's first visit to the Bronx, but she was accompanied on guitar by Gianni Paci from Oyster Bay, Long Island (who went to New York University).

Lewis played guitar on “Some Kind of Love” and “Lost in a Dream" and also performed "So Bad" in this FUV Live set.

[Recorded: 7/29/24; Engineered by Jim O'Hara with Erin Merriman; produced by Meghan Offtermatt; Videographers: Anna Fahy, Bella Lipayon, Adithi Vimalanathan, and Louisa Schramm.]