Aoife O'Donovan on Noisetrade!

Aoife is one of my favorite singers... I love the subtle huskiness in her voice, and how she can reshape a good blues song.  She has been the lead for Crooked Still that toured together for about ten years.  Now she has a solo CD coming out.  She's been on this blog before with Sometymes Why too.

Go on and get her five track EP from Noisetrade and then go over and then go over and like her FB page you know that I have.

New category...

The magic of love will be a new category brought on by one of my favorite songs by Sometymes Why. Kristen, Aifoe, and Ruth's three part harmony are so easy to listen to... and gracious if I ever saw them in concert, pretty easy to watch sing to... pure magic... if they have magic hands... I'm guessing there's more magic in those bones, vocal chords and eyes too.

I think this is a category I'll fun with in the future...



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I'm a big Fan of Sometymes Why

Sometymes Why – CD Release Party
Thursday, April 16th
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street • New York, NY
8:30pm • $10 Reservations by phone only: 212-989-9319. Get there early for a good spot.

So in honor of their CD release party, here's a photo montage to The Stupid Kiss.. Kristin on lead.



Yes I resemble the Wikipedia definitions of fanatical... HA.

Fanaticism is an emotion of being filled with excessive, uncritical zeal, particularly for an extreme religious or political cause or in some cases sports, or with an obsessive enthusiasm for a pastime or hobby. Philosopher George Santayana defines fanaticism as "redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim"[1]; according to Winston Churchill, "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject". By either description the fanatic displays very strict standards and little tolerance for contrary ideas or opinions.

Sometymes Why new CD

I ran into a great review of the new Sometymes Why CD, "Your Heart Is A Glorious Machine" Here is part of it: Although Aoife O’Donovan, Ruth Ungar Merenda and Kristin Andreassen’s music is firmly rooted in bluegrass, the music on their new album Your Heart Is A Glorious Machine, is distant from the sounds of O Brother, How Art Thou and instead incorporates orchestral elements to compliment the baritone ukulele, in songs such as the second track, “Slow Down,” and leans more to an alternative rock Americana hybrid with the group’s gut wrenching cover of Concrete Blonde’s, “Joey.” The song, “Slow Down,” is an original piece written by O’Donovan and features her hauntingly beautiful vocals, and before winding down with Celtic like overtones. (The REST) Or read this ONE. or ANOTHER One. Or EVEN this one from Fire Note which is now in my side bar.

Now for my cultural education. I did not ever hear this "Joey" song by Concrete Blonde, so I looked it up on YouTube. Since they don't allow embedding, you will have to click on this to listen to it. WATCH IT As I'm writing this, I'm listening to the Sometymes Why beautiful 3 part harmony to this song. I will have to think it is 100 times better than the original. For the rest of the CD, I'm dabbling on it. These three are really good.

Here is a promotional video of the group and the CD release: