Germano was working as a violinist when rock singer John Mellencamp invited her to play on his album. For seven years she toured and recorded as a member of Mellencamp's band, [4][5] appearing on The Lonesome Jubilee (1987), [6] Big Daddy (1989), Falling from Grace (1991), Human Wheels (1993), and Dance Naked (1994).

2023年2月1日 · John Mellencamp is set to kick off his Live and In Person tour this weekend, and one member of his band will certainly look familiar to longtime fans. The "Small Town" singer announced on Instagram that singer/multiple-instrumentalist Lisa Germano is joining him on tour for the first time in 29 years.

1997年4月30日 · While playing fiddle in a country bar band, she met Kenny Aronoff, the drummer in John Mellencamp’s band. Through Aronoff, she was recruited to play on the B-side of a single from his...

2009年11月19日 · There’s no Reggie Miller, but the place is full of Hoosiers standing up and dancing. We’re introduced to John Cougar Mellencamp’s band, including Lisa Germano playing the song’s main hook on fiddle, and drummer Kenny Aronoff looking bald and tank-topped.

2012年10月20日 · Fiddle player Lisa Germano shines on the album’s biggest hit “Cherry Bomb” on which she also provides vocals. Germano would become a permanent part of Mellencamp’s band until the mid 1990s.

2024年1月11日 · She is most known for her work with John Cougar Mellencamp - playing fiddle and mandolin. She also got some attention for her darkly brilliant songwriting and rich instrumental recordings in the 1990s. She plays violin, mandolin, piano and guitar. Made several solo records ("Happiness" and "Geek the Girl" both got critical acclaim).

After all, this is a musician known as much for her trips into the dark world of sexual abuse, depression, and alcohol on the albums Geek the Girl1994) and Lullaby for Liquid Pig (2003) as she is for touring as the fiddle player in John Mellencamp's band.

1996年9月22日 · Through Aronoff, she got the job playing fiddle on the B-side of a single from Mellencamp’s 1985 “Scarecrow” album. Impressed, Mellencamp invited her to join his band on the road.

Self-billed as “The Emotional Wench,” Indiana native Lisa Germano first surfaced as the fiddler with John Cougar Mellencamp’s band, but her own work is light years away from the heartland swagger of her erstwhile employer.

Although Lisa Germano once attracted attention as the violinist for John Mellencamp on his Lonesome Jubilee and Big Daddy albums, she has since carved out her own place in the music world as the creator of a series of harrowing albums of a stunningly personal nature.