Lori Lieberman - Sunday Breakfast - 2014

Though she was born in Los Angeles and lives there now, Lori Lieberman actually grew up in Geneva, Switzerland. That left her isolated from 1960's American folk music, until her sister came home from college in 1968 with copies of albums by Judy Collins, Tom Rush, and Joni Mitchell.

That shift in her musical consciousness was followed in 1971 by the thunderbolt of seeing Don McLean at the Troubadour in L.A. Feeling he was singing directly to her, Lori went home and composed a poem, which became the inspiration for "Killing Me Softly With His Song."

Forty years (and many albums of her own well-crafted songs) later, Lori came back to WFUV for a warm conversation, during which she performed four songs, including the aforementioned "Killing Me Softly," in Studio A.