Judy Roderick Woman Blue CD

NOW LET US speak now of a woman evidently sensitive and musical named Liz Hamill, who grew up immersed in the ideas of the 60s revolution. Along with her parents, part of the Flower Power generation, she heard Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. Her father went to Woodstock and her mother was active in the Civil Rights movement during the Vietnam period. With so many living and active icons around her, Liz rapidly identified music as her way of expression, mastering many instruments, from drums to piano, but elected the guitar as her constant companion. She graduated in Jazz and Improvisation from the highly regarded New England Conservatory, deepening her knowledge of the diversity and sophistication that Jazz offers.

AFTER TASTING the fruits, Liz wanted to know the roots, and fell in love with a certain man named Robert Johnson, who introduced her to a world of simple and direct words and to the music that held those words. Folk and Blues entered definitively into her life as did her guide in the universe of sounds, the Zen Buddhist Mick Goodrick, with whom she studied, trained and matured her knowledge and technique, even participating as co-author in the highly respected book, THE ADVANCING GUITARIST. In this same period, she started to develop techniques of recording and publishing in the alternative and folk music scene and recorded her CD, LIZ HAMILL, CAMBRIDGE POST MISSISSIPPI FRED McDOWELL AND SANDY DENNY, produced by Darleen Wison (Patty Larkin, Cry Cry Cry and Bill Morrisey). Much praised by the critics, her name was firmly established in her base of the Boston and New England circuit and began to open doors to the national circuit of Folk Music in the United States.

BUT IT DIDN'T take much time or many situations for Liz to realize that her nature and her intentions were not in tune with the heavy waves of the 'Business.

' She left the main road and began to search for a path with which she could identify. At that time, she attended a teaching by an American teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, Lama Tsering Everest, who touched her heart profoundly. This lama advised her to meet and train with her own teacher, the Tibetan Lama Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, who had just moved to a little town in the countryside of Brazil.