lissie

lissie

You can always recognize an Annie. There’s something iconically American –fresh faced, light, open – about the women who once starred in the musical about a curly haired orphan with an indomitable spirit. You’re not quite sure where this infectious energy comes from, energy that evokes all the possibilities of youth – the precociousness, the adventure. Once it slips, “I was Annie when I was nine,” you say, “Yes! Of course you were.” And then you ask, what happened next? For Lissie – a California indie rocker, what happened next reads like a novel, like a fusion of Salinger, Voltaire, and Blume, with a rock and roll paperback thrown in f...