Lilli Lewis - All Is Forgiven

Athens, GA native turned New Orleans Folk Rock Diva Lilli Lewis says her latest release “All Is Forgiven” could just as easily have been named “Treasures from Exile,” because it chronicles the lessons she learned while stranded in a decidedly uncomfortable professional limbo. She had been released from the helm of the New Orleans based record label she had been charged with holding afloat, after seeking anti-racist mediation with a toxic CEO. And she had been “ghosted” by the omnipresent (in certain circles) Black Opry, an organization for which she had once produced a COVID era virtual festival, because, as she was told, its leader “did not like her album.”  At a time when Lewis had grown accustomed to working up to 100 hour work weeks, even during the pandemic, serving her artists while supporting greater visibility and equity for Black artists in Americana, Lewis had the rug pulled from beneath her. Disoriented but still eager to support her 2021 release “Americana,” Lewis hit the r