Toby Lightman - Bird on a Wire

There's a music biz truism that says an artist has her whole life to write her first album and six months to write her second. What that statement fails to take into account are maturation and inspiration-two elements present in abundance throughout Bird on a Wire, the surprising second album from New York-based writer/artist Toby Lightman. With 13 songs running the gamut from the Rufus-style funk-pop of "Slipping" to the moving lullaby "Better" and the modern-day torch song "Weight of the World", the album documents an uncommonly gifted young artist in the act of becoming fully herself.

1) Don't Wake Me
2) Don't Let Go
3) Better
4) Slipping
5) Round ; Round
6) My Sweet Song
7) Alone
8) One Sure Thing
9) Overflowing
10) Weight of the World
11) Holding Me Down
12) I'd Be Lost
13) Good Find