Praise for REAL LIVE GIRL:
"... Smart, insightful and incisive lyrics ... attractive, engaging, sexy, and fresh."
"... Real Live Girl finds a balance between that intellectual approach and a playful, flirtatious chorus."
"... A strong, distinctive voice, with a lot of character and personality. Real Live Girl makes the most of that character, adding a vivacious quality..."
" ... Very smart lyrics throughout ... very visual and sensuous."
"... A wonderful, imaginative lyric tone that remains conversational while plumbing the dictionary’s depths."
"There‘s no getting around it - lines like ’routine just seems a deadly kind of habitat for me" could’ve come out of a best-selling novel ..."
"A voice like a prairie tornado ..." (LA Weekly)
JONI & ME – November 7, 2018
My piece on Joni Mitchell’s 75th Birthday Concert was just published in the December issue of the Songwriters Square Newsletter!
We were very fortunate to attend Joni Mitchell’s 75th Birthday concert this past Wednesday night, and I’m still processing the experience. Just to be in the same space with so many of my heroes to celebrate this musical maverick who has been such a profound inspiration to us all, the creator of a body of work that defined an era and became the emotional soundscape for generations of artists, lovers, writers and poets. But while I continue to process, I wanted to share some of my reflections and highlights from the evening… Read more →