Although Isia Cooper has been playing guitar for only two-and-a-half years, the grace of her slow croon and spacious strumming has enchanted a growing scene around her performances. Her debut CD, Sail the Skin (New Street Records) is due out in June. Her collaboration with Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel on www.myspace.com/isiacooper, called “For My Tea,” is an arresting merger of her brittle songwriting and the avant-garde.

Read the rest of the Music Issue 2007 here.

Photo by Alejandro Leal -  podcast produced by Edward Adams