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Amy Ray
I started listening to the Indigo Girls in 1987 and haven\’t stopped since. Yeah, I think they\’ve had a few missteps along the way, but nothing too severe. For the most part, they are simply wonderful. Of the two, I\’ve always leaned more toward Amy Ray\’s dark and somewhat brooding temperament. There\’s just something about…
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David Poe
My first encounter with David Poe didn\’t go so well. It was at his show in an East Village Bar in 2002. He was not in top form; I was underwhelmed, despite being a fan of his records. A few years later, we reconnected and I had quite the opposite experience. We talked about music…
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Vonda Shepard
In January of 1994, I started booking an acoustic club in Los Angeles called Genghis Cohen. Jill Sobule, Dar Williams, Ellis Paul, Martin Sexton, Shawn Mullins, and Maia Sharp all played there. Joni Mitchell did a super-secret set one night. And the Bangles all four congregated one evening for the first time in five years…
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Joan Jones
My friend Honey Harris is the morning show DJ on KBAC FM in Santa Fe. We decided that, in addition to being her ad hoc producer, I should come in every week and do a little segment. Inspired by my year-end blog post, we decided on Kelly Does Her Best wherein I introduce listeners to…
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Chatting It Up with Patty Larkin
I love Patty Larkin. She\’s one of those artists that never disappoints me. Not one for the glitz and glamor, Patty is an artist\’s artist, a writer\’s writer, pushing her craft with each project without sacrificing quality in the name of experimentation. Her latest release, Watch the Sky, is all her. She wrote, played and…
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Chatting It Up with Catie Curtis
Catie Curtis is an artist I\’ve kept my eye (and ears) on for maybe 15 years now as she has been tossed from one label to the next. I took an early interest because she was out before it was the cool thing to be, never shying away from the truth in her life or…
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Chatting It Up with Adrianne
Singer-songwriter Adrianne recently released her sixth solo record and a new band project. Like Mieka Pauley, she has the DIY thing down pat, even self-producing and self-engineering the latest work. With a penchant for stories of the heart, Adrianne has been winning crowds over with her almost non-stop touring. Whether as part of a musical…
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Chatting It Up with Sarah Bettens
Through a career that hearkens back to the early \’90s, Sarah Bettens has been there and done that. Perhaps best known as the frontwoman of K\’s Choice (which garnered platinum sales in Europe), Bettens stepped out on her own a few years ago with Scream. Her follow-up effort, Shine, was recently released to great fanfare,…
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Chatting It Up with Natalia Zukerman
Having grown up in a family of highly acclaimed classical musicians, Natalia Zukerman carved out her own path in a bold new world. Her new release Brand New Frame is a delightful mixture of blues, jazz, folk and more supporting a solid collection of tunes about love and life, which is to be expected from…
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Chatting It Up with Kym Tuvim
Seattle singer/songwriter Kym Tuvim\’s new (and third) release Nothing, Sweet Nothing is coming out this week. It\’s a mash-up of styles that coalesce seamlessly in Tuvim\’s hands. Here\’s a fine summation: “On the mostly original cross-genre collection, Tuvim travels through roots, folk-pop, jazz, and swampy blues, offering up unguarded observations on the quiet in-between places…