In episode 20, I sit down with Cristina Vane singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist. We discuss her childhood in Italy, France, and England, coming to the states to go to Princeton, and how she came to be both a bottle neck slide guitarist and clawhammer banjoist, and how her tour across Americas beautiful landscapes inspired her first solo full length album, "Nowhere Sounds Lovely."
In this week's episode, I talk with Cristina Vane, a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist solo artist that recently released her first full length solo album, "Nowhere Sounds Lovely." Cristina is of Italian-American and Guatemalan descent. I ask her about food from home. We discuss coming to America to go to Princeton, and how her music brought her to LA and more recently Nashville We also talk about her inspiration for the bottle neck slide, and how a summer tour that involved camping in and around some of America's most beautiful national parks and places inspired the songs on her new album. We discuss the inspiration for one of my favorite songs off the album, "Prayer for the Blind," and then she delights me with an impromptu live performance of the song. Crystal and I deep dive into Italian cuisine history, Michael Keaton movies, national parks, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Please enjoy my conversation with the inspirational cross-genre queen, Sister Cristina Vane.