Liz Draper
bassist, composer, producer, educator
Liz Draper preforming with Low

Meet Liz Draper

Upright and electric bassist Liz Draper’s music can be described as “classicaldoomfolkjazz,” a genre exemplified in her debut solo album “Meno” (Liatris Records, 2025). She is a 2021 American Composers Forum awardee for her solo work and has played with artists from Grammy-nominated slow-core band Low to the Balkan folk group Orkestar Bez Ime, Righteous Babe artist Pieta Brown, Grammy Award-winning Okee Dokee Brothers, and Smithsonian recording artist folk troubadour Charlie Parr. Liz is currently touring with 2 time Grammy-nominated songwriter Iris Dement.

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Meno Album Reviews

“A very beautiful and moving record. I was transported.”

Iris DeMent

“Liz Draper’s Meno is a wondrously warm and meditative soundscape.  It’s soothing and playful, the way a grandfather’s voice might be teasingly in the other room…or the way a sunset dances on the differing textures of wind on water.  I want to drink it and keep refilling my glass. I love this ep, it’s gorgeous”

Kendl Winter

Banjoist of The Lowest Pair

“One of the most heart-wrenchingly enchanted albums I have ever heard. You can hear every hair of the bow across the strings, you hear the air in the room, you hear the stoy… Meno gives me chills from start to finish.”

Tony Polecastro

Guitarist

“Good tones. Great Grooves. It’s a refreshing new vibe in my music rotation.”

Eric Bunde

Drummer

“Gorgeous. On my system it sounds 3D.  The piano at the end of Slough is heartbreaking. Perfect.”

Charlie Parr

Smithsonian recording artist

“Meno captures the endlessly complex grain of bow against strings, as though her bass is singing rather than being played.”

Stephen Deisner

Uncut Magazine

“Meno is a beautiful project throughout. The bass tones are so thick, and the arrangements are both lush and austere. It sounds vulnerable and tough, melodic and moody.”

Nathan Hanson

McKnight Fellow Composer // Saxophonist

“I love how natural it all sounds. I love the spontaneity and where the melodies take me. I love it.”

John Convertino

Calexico

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