In “Spend a Little Time,” Lisa Michelle Anderson brings together Americana and folk with the restless perspective of someone whose roots may be small-town, but whose life has taken her far beyond them. Raised in Southeast Kansas, Anderson grew up surrounded by creativity: her visual-artist father gave her a guitar and taught her to never color inside the lines, while her mother’s love of travel and storytelling planted an early fascination with adventure and well-told tales.
The song immediately draws the listener in with an engaging rhythm, soft beats, and vibrant, chiming guitars that carry a warm melodic glow. Anderson’s high, delicate voice moves gently and soulfully through the arrangement, giving the track a transcendent meditativeness. Softly splashing cymbals add another layer of movement. The performance lets small details breathe, allowing the warmth of the guitars and Anderson’s expressive delivery to gradually pull the listener deeper in.
That sense of openness reflects a life spent moving between different places and musical worlds. Anderson’s formative years included time in Australia and Greece before she returned to the United States and began performing at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri, at just 18. Later, playing with a country band in a rough biker bar in San Diego gave her a very different kind of education, teaching her to connect with audiences and understand that a song is ultimately about the story it leaves behind.
Her latest album, Get to Somewhere, produced by Johnny Irion and mixed by Paul Kolderie, has already found international attention, debuting on Apple Music’s New in Folk at No. 3 in Australia and No. 5 in the U.S. It is another chapter in a career built around movement, memory and storytelling.
At the end of the day, Anderson’s music feels like an open road viewed through a familiar window, rooted in where she began, but always looking toward somewhere beyond it.
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Review by: Naomi Joan