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Genre: Americana, Bluegrass, Folk, Indie, Country
Website: https://monicarizzio.com/
Monica Rizzio's ode to Willie Nelson won finalist in the 31st annual Songwriters of Washington (SAW) competition and was the first single released in early 2016.
"I invited Monica Rizzio to share the stage with me at Symphony Hall and she went and stole the audience right out from under me! -TOM RUSH
The locals call someone who moves to Cape Cod but was not born there a Washahore. In Texas, a young girl barrel-raced on Pleasant Valley Ranch and had never seen the ocean. So when Monica Rizzio crossed over the iconic bridges of Cape Cod in 2004, she instantly became the Washashore Cowgirl.
The former Tripping Lily front woman has left behind the acoustic, condenser mic style and has brought her East Texas roots up north for her debut album, fittingly named, “Washashore Cowgirl." After leaving the band in 2013, she purchased a 1956 Martin O-18, named it Bo, and plugged in.
For the next few years she started playing with a bunch of salty, accomplished Cape Cod musicians who helped bring back the cowgirl attitude and inspired her to write about her sometimes humorous, sometimes tear-jerking journey from Texas, love, and heartache.
Much of the album is like a stiff cocktail, deeply autobiographical and mixed with a hint of fiction. Rizzio wanted to write a song about one of her musical idols and penned “Willie Nelson” while being snowed in during a Nor’Easter. After channeling her inner-Willie for a couple of days, she found herself in a love affair with an older man, in a tale of two cities, with forgotten yesterdays.