Please join the Unstoppable Frankie Picasso and Co Host Wendy Allyn on the Frankie and Johnny Music Hour Monday, April 12th, for the Frankie &Johnny Music Hour, www.blogtalkradio.com/frankie–johnny at 8:00 pm est when our guests are The Therapy Sisters.

THE THERAPY SISTERS  - Austin’s gem of a Therapeutic, Self-help Musical Duo!

Welcome to the wacky and wonderful world and music of the Therapy Sisters, aka “The Sissies” or the “T-Sissies”.  Maurine McLean (bass & witticisms)

and Lisa Rogers Lisa Rogers (guitar, ukulele & gumption)are two amazing women making up this duo and what sets their music apart is their mission for having lots of fun and making people laugh as they think about life, mortality, relationships and absurdity. They are not immune to the American obsession with self-help and therapeutic solutions. Music and laughter produce the altered state they seek, so the band serves as remedy, confessional, and the audible blog of their lives.

Their musicianship and talent for songwriting is evident and full-flavored with the humor, insight and relevance they pour into each and every song.  They influence each other, co-write and compete for “Song most likely to get stuck in your head”!

With a whopping 9 CD’s recorded, The Sissies are planning their 10^th to be done by the end of 2010.  They’ve played in the U.S. coast to coast in clubs and coffeehouses.  Their farthest gig from home was a Peace festival in East Germany the year the wall came down.  Vying for strangest gig are the performance at the El Paso bowling alley cafeteria and the cruise ship shows for the Journal of Nursing Jocularity.  In the running for best gig are the musical evenings we split with the Austin Lounge Lizards at Austin’s Cactus Café and concerts at a Unity Church in Ventura, California.  But then that leaves out the benefits for a Mexican orphanage in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato and also the time we played on a flatbed truck in a parade in Provincetown.  Another of the duo’s alter-ego ensembles is a Spanish language band, Las Gabacha-chas. Here, the band covers cha cha cha’s of the 1950’s and 60’s as well as assorted originals.

In their words, “It’s all been wacky and wonderful, and after 9 recordings and 400,000 miles on 2 vans, we have settled into performing steadily in central Texas, with occasional forays to New England or south of the border.  The Chilean earthquake foiled our Spring in Santiago tour, which had to be postponed till 2011.  We’ve played garage sales, menopause parties, funerals and weddings, and the occasional grocery store opening.  Playing makes us feel good and we hear that feeling is contagious!”