On the Chart, May 2008
Lizz Wright
A jazz and gospel singer from Hahira, Georgia, whose third album came out in February 2008. By May one of its songs had already been No. 1 on Cove’s Editor’s List and was on its way down. Her name also turns up in a second, unrelated part of the archive.
The Cove archive desk · Compiled October 2026
What Cove wrote
Cove’s blog page On the Chart summarised the May 2008 Editor’s Lists. It mentions her in one line: Former No.1 song, Lizz Wright “My Heart” falls five spaces from 1-5.
The May lists themselves were not archived, so this sentence is all that survives of them for her. “My Heart” is on The Orchard according to MusicBrainz. Its earliest release there is dated February 2008, which places Cove’s No. 1 within a few months of the album.
The second appearance
Her name turns up again in Cove’s interview with Nick Howard, as a credit. Listing the musicians on his album, Howard named Nicholas D’Amato and put “Lizz Wright” in brackets after him, the way session players are often introduced, by an artist they have worked with. It is a small thing. But it shows the magazine’s two strands, the lists and the emerging-artist interviews, crossing the same corner of the New York scene.
At a glance
| Act | Solo artist |
|---|---|
| Origin | Hahira, United States |
| Releases on MusicBrainz | 13 release groups, 2003–2026 |
| Earliest dated release listed | Salt (2003, album) |
| Label on that release | Verve |
| In Cove’s archive | On the Chart, May 2008 |
Albums
| First released | Title | Type | Label on first release |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-03-13 | Salt | Album | Verve |
| 2005-01-01 | Dreaming Wide Awake | Album | The Verve Group |
| 2008-02-26 | The Orchard | Album | Verve Forecast |
| 2010-09-28 | Fellowship | Album | Verve Forecast |
| 2015-09-04 | Freedom & Surrender | Album | Concord Records |
| 2017-09-15 | Grace | Album | Concord Records |
| 2022-06-15 | Holding Space (Lizz Wright live in Berlin) | Album (live) | Blues & Greens Records |
| 2024-04-12 | Shadow | Album | Blues & Greens Records, Virgin |
| 2026-09-25 | Nearness | Album | Candid |
| undated | Holding Space | Album (live) | not listed |
MusicBrainz lists her albums from Salt (2003) onwards. The first four are on Verve and its Verve Forecast imprint. Freedom & Surrender (2015) and Grace (2017) are on Concord. A live set and Shadow (2024) carry Blues & Greens Records. The newest entry is Nearness, dated 25 September 2026 on Candid, weeks before this page was compiled. A second, undated release group called Holding Space is MusicBrainz’s own duplicate-looking entry, and we have left it as recorded.
Origin
MusicBrainz names Hahira, in the United States, as where she is from. Wikipedia describes her as a jazz and gospel singer, and the Verve years fit that description. Verve Forecast also appears on The Bridges’ 2008 debut, another Cove pick that year.
What the record shows
A continuous run of albums from 2003 to 2026, on several label homes, with no gap longer than five years in the MusicBrainz record. Cove caught her during the Verve years. The page does not attempt a critical judgement of the albums. Sources: the Cove page for what the magazine said, MusicBrainz for the records.
The same On the Chart post covered Lyfe Jennings, Phil Stacey and El Perro del Mar.
The Orchard, track by track
“My Heart”, the song Cove had at No. 1, is track 2 of the US release, dated 26 February 2008.
| # | Track | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coming Home | 4:46 |
| 2 | My Heart | 4:00 |
| 3 | I Idolize You | 4:54 |
| 4 | Hey Mann | 5:21 |
| 5 | Another Angel | 3:42 |
| 6 | When I Fall | 3:54 |
| 7 | Leave Me Standing Alone | 5:03 |
| 8 | Speak Your Heart | 3:45 |
| 9 | This Is | 4:10 |
| 10 | Song For Mia | 4:52 |
| 11 | Thank You | 5:00 |
| 12 | Strange (bonus) | 3:32 |
Discography data: MusicBrainz (CC0), checked 26 October 2026. Dates are first-release dates as MusicBrainz records them; a release it does not list is not shown here. Background not held by MusicBrainz was confirmed against Wikipedia, checked 26 October 2026.
Also in Cove’s archive: pureNRG · Lyfe Jennings · all the new artists in Cove’s archive · the archive home page