Cassandra Lewis on her debut album, ‘Lost in a Dream’

When singer-songwriter Cassandra Lewis arrived in Nashville, it’d been a long time coming: It was the 33rd city she’d lived in.

It’s fitting that her major label debut album offers several nods to another adventurer who traveled to faraway lands. Lost in a Dream echoes the story of The Wizard of Oz. Lewis says film factors heavily into her music making.

“When I hear music, I see colors. I see movies,” she says.

In this session, Lewis will take us on the yellow brick road of her life — from her psychedelic awakening and watching her cannabis farm burn to busking out of the back of her car to make the money for her first EP.

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The web story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.