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On March 4, 2008, singer/songwriter, Katie Sawicki will release her third album, Time Spent Lost. This album is fraught with songs about loneliness and leaving loved ones, yet the lyrics are some of the most honest and heartbreaking I have ever heard. Sawicki puts her feelings and emotions directly into her songs, emotions easily detectable in both her music and her voice.

Time Spent Lost begins with the song, Tuesday, and the first lines read, “Oh, my darling, I am headed back. I left all my sadness behind.” It is a foreshadowing of the lyrics (and music) to follow on the rest of the album. Sawicki’s lyrics, although mainly about heartache, remain unique and not the stuff of typical sad love songs. On the fifth track, Good Thing, she croons about what it is like to leave someone that you love but know is wrong. She writes, “I know you don’t blame me completely, but I still think of you with regret…I’m just glad I got to see your face, got to take you home. I’m just glad I got to hold your head, lying in the city park….I’m sorry for the wavering and the time spent lost. I’m sorry for the undertow I know I caused. Why did it take so long to see we had a good thing? We had a good thing.”

On her latest single, Ironbound, she releases many personal memories and feelings with an upbeat tempo and melody. She poetically sings, “I should have bootlegged every moment – I miss our paper-napkin maps. I miss the banging of the steam-heated houses, down the block from the Chapterhouse bar under the Ithaca stars…I could burn down, but you set me right.”

Her music is honest, personal, and a testament to life on the road, life in New York, and the music she diligently plays in cafés and dive-bar establishments. She is set to start touring the nation in May 2008 in order to promote this very original and compelling album and to again live the life that she so perfectly describes in her lyrics.