Brooklyn guitarist and composer/songwriter Liz Hogg has has toured twenty two countries across four continents and thirteen US states playing numerous festivals and concert halls, including SXSW, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Brookfield Place, as well as Portugal’s Casa da Música and Mexico’s Tlaqná Concert Hall. 

On top of her accomplishments, Hogg received grants and awards from Chamber Music America, Citizens Committee for New York City, Queens College, the Maurice Kagan Memorial Scholarship Award for Excellence in an Orchestral Instrument, and Mannes College. 

Hogg has released the video for “One Thread,”  which comes off the upcoming Goodbye World Hello Something.  Set to drop November 12, the album will feature Hogg’s stellar crafting of her classical teachings with jangly vocals and instrumentals. Lyrically, Hogg presents to listeners a playful vibe along with being existential.

Hogg said of “One Thread”: “I wanted the album to end on an anthemic, sentimental, bittersweet and romantic note, from the pov of a person describing a love that winds its way through an entire lifetime, like an invisible thread. Though threads are fragile and thin, they can be hard to break. I also think of this thread as helix strands of DNA and embedded into the veins that thread their way throughout the body, and our circulatory and nervous systems. And hoping to transmit how that love ‘thread’seeps its way into the most embedded threads that make up our emotional and physical states.

Fun fact: there’s a strange rumbling sound in the mix that’s hard to identify and you might feel it more than hear it. This was one of those happy accidents that can come from the recording process: one of the tom-tom sounds I’d programmed in Logic was not imported correctly into the producer’s version of Protools due to the incompatible libraries of the DAWs. The computer’s automatic choice of replacement was this odd rumbling sound that I insisted on keeping in the final mix, though we modified it a little to keep it a bit less crazy sounding than it did originally. It adds a mysterious body and depth to the sound I like.

Musically, ‘Silly Love Songs’ by Wings inspired the 3-part voiced chorus as well as the song structure and ‘Sweet Jane’ by VU inspired the chorus chord groove. (I should clarify my favorite Wings song is ‘Jet’, but I was very drawn to SLS as a kid and it’s certainly still one of my favs).”