Toby Lightman in Los Angeles

Toby Lightman

Theres a music biz truism that says an artist has her whole life to write her first album and six months to write her second. What that statement fails to take into account are maturation and inspirationtwo elements present in abundance throughout Bird on a Wire, on Atlantic Records, the surprising second album from New York-based writer/artist Toby Lightman. With 13 songs running the gamut from the Rufus-style funk-pop of Round and Round and the shimmering old-school R&B of Slipping to the moving lullaby Better and the modern-day torch song Weight of the World, the album documents an uncommonly gifted young artist in the act of becoming f...