Some recent responses to the album, Down That Road..
"Exquisite, flawless, top rate stuff. I enjoy this CD more than my current KD Lang cd". Tony Pierson, San Diego
"I LOVE LOVE LOVE the new record!! It's just gorgeous - on every lev [+]Some recent responses to the album, Down That Road..
"Exquisite, flawless, top rate stuff. I enjoy this CD more than my current KD Lang cd". Tony Pierson, San Diego
"I LOVE LOVE LOVE the new record!! It's just gorgeous - on every level" Singer-songwriter Kym Tuvim
"I put Down That Road on in the car and I just started crying! It is so freakin' incredible. I just can't say enough about great your album is! You guys are gonna be giant!" Charlie Cheney - software developer -IndieBand Manager
Singer-songwriter Green's debut CD Multiheaded Heart (1999) created a stir in the West Coast music scene with it's folk, blues, world, and pop production wrapped tightly around personal anthems about relationship, nature and love. Tenor Root joins Green on the new CD Down That Road, thus creating Green and Root (because you can't have the green leaves without the roots!) Root's silky harmonies add grace and depth to the album's honest and insightful songs.
Down That Road is a storybook of diverse subject matter expressed with delicacy and mastery. The sometimes spare, sometimes full production cradles themes of creativity, marriage, spirituality and death. The album plays earthy and intimate, sometimes quite vulnerable, with an eclectic set of mainly acoustic instruments, including flugal horn, cello, piano, harmonium, accordian, slide guitar, pedal steel, wurlizer, stand up bass and drums. Each song starts with Green's acoustic guitar. Then her illustrious soprano voice enters, sliding up and down the scale effortlessly through the thoughtful and heartbreaking lyrics, with Root's lush harmonies filling out the sound.
When conceiving this album, Green and Root wanted to make a cd that spoke about the many things they were concerned about, the things they talked about late at night or on the road, the things that made them crazy. They wanted to make a difference in the world somehow with their music. They strove to move away from songs about love and heartbreak, but the songs that emerged taught them that love and heartbreak are inseparable from the human journey. The new songs only broaden the notion of who we are in relationship with. Now the relationships are not just with a lover, but with oneself, one's mother, the muse, the
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