Allison Crowe's bootleg series from Europe includes this
video of her concert performance of a song by fellow
Canadians, the Matthew Good Band.
"Running
for Home", performed by Crowe, solo and with her
band, at the start of this century, returns to her
repertoire in this Spring 2014 concert tournee.
The song's originally penned by Matt Good and Dave Genn for
their group's 1999 album, "Beautiful Midnight".
Naming "Heavy Graces" one of the top albums of
2013, pioneering music blog Muruch says: "The
original song lyrics on Heavy Graces seem to deal most
often with regaining control of one's own life, venting
anger at and breaking free from oppressive influences and
starting fresh with integrity intact. Whether such fierce
and independent themes were born from the death of a
relationship or Allison's brief brush with Hollywood, it
seems our favorite independent singer-songwriter is more
determined than ever to forge her own path. I predict we'll
be seeing Allison Crowe not once but twice on our best of
the year list."
In this latest bootleg from her
recent European concert tour, Allison Crowe, again, shows how and why she’s
loved – and earns hearty plaudits - ‘round the globe.
"Canada's
finest songwriter" says writer Stephen Thomas, co-founder of the UK’s
Folkroom Records. "In a world of copycats and
wannabes in the singer-songwriter field, Crowe is a true original and is
playing in a league of her own," notes L.A.-based writer/producer and AMG
journalist Tom Mureika.
Delivery of musical joy and genius today come via pathways
distant from the corporate product and pop / rock ephemera of the establishment
record industry.
Here at the storied Jazzhaus in Freiburg,
Germany, Allison Crowe reveals
her “Secrets”
Allison Crowe rocks hard as any musician - and is just as moving when
she gently delivers a reflective ballad such as "Hold Back" - first
heard on her "Little Light" album - http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/little-light
Here Crowe picks up her guitar and plays for a wonderful audience of
music-lovers at Jazzhaus Freiburg - a Muttertag / Mother's Day show on
the "Heavy Graces" 2014 European concert tour.
On her most recent European tour, Allison Crowe's concert
venues included several classic jazz joints.
Crowe, who started playing piano at age five, first sang
publicly around that same time - belting out the Jazz
Era-hit "Ja-Da Ja-Da (Jing Jing Jing)".
Making music her life full-time since age 16, the artist,
now 32, is one of the great singers and musicians in
popular music on-stage and on record this century. While
she's known as a singular writer and performer of rock,
folk, pop, Newfoundland, Celtic, and other sounds - her
roots in jazz go deep, and she now includes some favourite
standards in her many-hued repertoire.
Here, at Germany's Jazzhaus Freiburg, Allison Crowe sings
Rogers & Hart's "My Funny Valentine" -
accompanied by the always delightful Billie Woods
on guitar.
Discerning culture blog
Muruch says: “I never thought anyone could match,
let alone surpass, the great Etta James on this song, but
Allison’s gut-busting high notes take the melody to a whole 'nother level…”
In an courtyard tonight in
Haarlem, Holland – there’s finally internet connection
enough to upload a video from Allison Crowe’s “Heavy
Graces” tour! Plenty more images – and, with any luck,
more video – from the latest chapter in the musical story
of one of the modern greats:
Musician Allison Crowe performs her song "Disease"
-- before a rocking audience at Germany's Jazzhaus Freiburg
on Muttertag -- Mother's Day -- 2014. This tune and Crowe's
wildly impassioned performances have drawn her comparison
in Europe to innovative Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky
-- and the famed German singer-songwriter ("Liedermacher"),
composer, author, and actor, Konstantin Wecker.
This hand-captured video is, obviously, lo-fi in sound+ --
still, it captures some of the excitement of this night --
representative of Crowe's triumphant May 2014 "Heavy
Graces" tour of Germany and Italy. The Canadian artist
enraptured audiences who called her back for two or three
encores each night.
At Jazzhaus - Allison Crowe takes to a stage that's hosted:
Miles Davis, Lionel Hampton, Art Blakey, Bill Evans, Sun
Ra, Don Cherry, Archie Shepp, BB King, Jimmy Cliff, Dee Dee
Bridgewater, Dianne Reeves, Maceo Parker, Betty Carter,
Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Billy Cobham, Terry Callier,
John Mayall, Spencer Davis, Nigel Kennedy und mehr greats.
