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With several albums and a few more chords under her belt, the 37-year-old folk singer no longer needs to play for spare change, though she still enjoys playing in front of the Coop and in Brattle Square. Live City Sounds, her most recent release and her first for independent Rubric Records, quickly sold out its initial pressing and has generated excellent reviews. As an added bonus, Lord is nominated in the category of Best Singer/Songwriter for a Boston Music Award, which will be handed out on April 11 at the Orpheum Theatre...
Lord cannot contain her passion for long, grinning from rosy cheek to rosy cheek as she declares, “It’s Rachael Davis.” After hearing the young folk singer on the radio last summer, Lord persuaded her to relocate to New England and uses her own gigs to showcase Davis’ talent. She takes pride in the fact that Davis, who had never played outside of Michigan when they first met, is now up for a Boston Music Award. (Modest as always, Lord fails to mention her own nomination.) When Lord dragged...
...normal 21 year-old rockstar would have been invited to play at that fated peace rally in what is now Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, especially not one who had insulted the prime minister just weeks before. It might help that his father, Yonaton, is a famous folk singer and that he is the nephew of former Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan, but it is Geffen’s lyrics that make his music important, his lyrics that make him more than just a pop icon...
...single tour. From that tour, they produced the new album, Live at the Quick. The album unites the deft musicianship of Fleck and his Flecktones with the unique talents of artists like saxophonist Paul McCandless, bassoonist Paul Hanson and Congo ol’Ondar, a Tuvan throat singer capable of simultaneously singing different pitches. Combined with Fleck’s electric banjos and Future Man’s drumitar, the collection of musicians produce unique instrumentations and texures which are unlikely to be repeated again...
...sick in the hospital or if you lose your identity card, goes the lyric, to get anything done in Kenya you have to pay a bribe. Kenyans have adopted the song as an anti-officialdom anthem, and they flock to appearances by its 28-year-old writer and singer, Eric Wainaina. "We like it because it's the truth," says Judy Elahuya, a housekeeper. "For everything you must bribe. That really makes you angry." It's a culture "that disempowers people and makes us pay for things that are our right," says Wainaina, who is studying at Berklee College...