A Rock N' Roll Troubadour With A Songwriter Heart - Liz Bohannon
At Pop Nerd Lounge, we love exploring different artists! Today I sat down with the soulfully charming, Liz Bohannon.
Bohannon's musical path has been a yellow brick road of extraordinary opportunities, influential mentors, and self-discovery that has taken her worldwide and back again to her hometown Nashville, TN. Liz experienced her first thunderous applause and loud shouts of approval at a talent show when she was just 3 1/2 years old. From that moment, music became a centerpiece in her life.—Studying Jazz and pursuing the songs of Carole King, Joe Cocker, Elvis Presley, and more. She graduated with honors from Indiana University, and toured for years, and then toured some more. Liz rolls her eyes about having performed for the President of Trikala, Greece. She got her rock n' roll chops from studying with Nashville's no-frills guitar guru Rob Jackson, whom she had a run-in with for having acrylic nails during one of his classes. She started learning the craft of songwriting early on in elementary school during after school mentor sessions with Hall of Fame songwriter, Layng Martine. After graduating from college, Liz moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in Hollywood. While out in LA, she met producer Jack Joseph Puig at Ocean Way Studios, who she impressed enough to lead to her first-ever writing session with Jeff Trott (prominent co-writer of Sheryl Crow fame). Since the early Trott Sessions, Bohannon has written dozens of songs with many significant writers and cut her first EP with Grammy award winner Daniel Tashian. She has had multiple sync placements in TV & Film and until recently had been a regular performer on the "third Sunday of every month" at Nashville's Browns Diner.