Kara Maguire - Nobody's Girl
Release Date.: 03.22.2007
Street Date..: 00.00.0000
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Blues
Playtime.....: 45:52 min
Grabber......: EAC
Encoder......: Lame 3.97
Quality......: V2 --vbr-new
Rippers Notes:
Kara Maguire is a 30 year old blues and rock singer.
She has always been a fan of classic female blues
singers such as Etta James, Koko Taylor and Bonnie
Raitt. But her influences are more varied and she has
been influenced by female singers of the 60's such as
Carole King and Carly Simon. Kara is from the east
coast and in fact her father is a well known
Philadelphia poet. She came out to Los Angeles to
sing rock and tore up the Hollywood club scene doing
her own original music (she recently had a few songs
picked up by television). But she always dreamed of
fronting a hard driving blues/rock band and recently
joined up with Jerry Rosen who hooked her up with
some of Southern California's top blues players.
Recently she has discovered classic Chicago blues
artists Magic Sam and Otis Riush and she is now
covering some of their material as well as
incorporating that vibe into her original music. The
two guitarists in the band are Tom Harkenrider and
Jerry Rosen. Tom, who is in his 30's, was a city
planner when he got drafted into James Harmon's band
and Tom toured with Harmon for many years. After
finishing with Harmon, he joined Candye Kane's road
band and spent several years with Candye. Tom is a
first call guitarist for Blues, Rockabilly and jazz
in Southern California. Tom also produced the CD.
Jerry is a blues lifer. He grew up listening to BB
and Albert King and was profoundly influenced by them
after seeing them live at the Fillmore East. He has
played blues in the LA area for 15 years and use to
own a blues label called Southside Records. He was
also the guitarist in the Mary Dukes band and
produced, played guitar on and wrote the songs for
Mary's CD. The Mary band toured nationally and played
some large festivals. Jerry is excited about helping
to launch Kara's music career and released her CD on
his new label - Albatross Recordings. The rhythm
section on the CD - Tyler Pederson and Paul Fasulo
are two of the busiest guys in blues. Tyler was
William Clarke's bassist for many years and Paul
recently toured with Rod Piazza. JT Ross has a highly
acclaimed CD on Southside Records and fronts one of
LA's top blues bands. There is no better harp player
in LA and his work on Kara's CD truly elevates the
tracks he is on. We are not a blues band or a rock
band. We do both and we are influenced by both the
blues and rock of the 60's. In our set, we mix both
styles and we are comfortable going back and forth
between the two. In the 60's blues and rock were
mixed together and it helped both genres. But we like
to think, that when we play blues, we are doing the
real thing. We rely on solid vocals, good songs and
music that is driven more by passion than volume; but
we do get down.
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Tracklist:
01 - I Got it Bad for You [04:19]
02 - Let it Ride [03:41]
03 - (this) Woman's Liberation [04:23]
04 - Nobody's Girl [05:28]
05 - The Blues Ain't Dead [04:21]
06 - I Tried [03:54]
07 - Stranded [04:37]
08 - He Knows How to Do it Right [03:19]
09 - Dnr [03:44]
10 - Nobody's Clown [04:14]
11 - Drive Me Crazy [03:52]
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