By: NAILA FRANCIS
The Intelligencer

(reprinted with permission)

She blames it on her Central Pennsylvania upbringing.

Though the music of Talisman boasts a definite classic rock bent, founder Crystal “C” Eiswert — the band’s lone female and lyricist — can’t take credit for it.

“One of the ongoing jokes in the band is that the guys will break into a classic rock song that everybody knows and I’m standing there and they’re mystified that I’ve never heard the song, but I’m, like, ‘I’m from Central Pa. We had Top 40 pop and country radio,’ ” says Eiswert, who grew up in Selinsgrove, Snyder County, but now calls Philadelphia home. “I come from The Archies (the fictional bubblegum pop band from the late 1960s cartoon ‘The Archie Show’) and ’70s music and ’80s music and real pop.”