Maps: How Lisa Ritchie followed her songs west and what she found [MUSIC PREVIEW]
Lisa Ritchie on her way west. Ritchie performs at The Standing Room Friday at 6 p.m. Photo by David Ritchie It’s a curious enterprise, the making of songs, and how those songs can sometimes become vessels that take their makers far beyond their known horizons for reasons that even they don’t quite understand. Lisa Ritchie started making songs as a ten-year-old girl in the tiny town of Dexter, Michigan singing quietly in her family home’s upstairs bathroom. As an origin story for a songwriter, this isn’t an unusual launching point — bathroom tiles offer great acoustics for soft secret singers. But where this story becomes a bit more unusual comes a bit later. At 23, Ritchie was on a path to success in the corporate world, traversing a glittering terrain of boardrooms, high-stakes dinners and high-powered conferences via private jet charters. She was young, sharp-eyed and articulate, a star on the rise in the monied world, moving with apparent ease towards a life of wealth and comfort. Instead, she walked away. Ritchie let her songs take her far from everything and everyone she knew. Ritchie remembers looking around at her formerly perfect life and glimpsing an air-conditioned…
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