Pro Tip: Click Add to My Bands below and well notify you when. Track List:Īll songs written by Heather Masse exceptīird Song by Heather Masse and Nicky Mehta. Sorry, weve got no upcoming shows for Heather Masse. A great and pleasant surprise that is welcome in this time, truly a collection of beautiful heartfelt songs. She is good and her voice is versatile without giving up its conviction and honesty. Frankly this reviewer never really listened to much Wailing Jennys because they didn't appeal and seemed a bland group, but this disc turns it all around for this singer/songwriter. This woman can sing whatever she wants and people will listen. They range from an almost salacious/bawdy blues number, Bathtub, to the world of country with an edge, High Heeled Woman, to the almost melancholy jazzy title track, Bird Song. Singer-songmaker Heather Masse is a rare artist with lush velvety vocals, capable of melting butter in a Siberian winter (All Music).She grew up in rural Maine and was trained at the New England Conservatory of Music as a jazz singer, she is steeped in the jazz tradition, which informs her distinct approach to singing folk, pop and bluegrass. Ms Masse uses the songs to take the listener on a series of journeys into the world of her songs. The band is extremely versatile and shifts and swings with her every adventure, and should be commended Karl Doty on bass, Jed Wilson keyboards, Lyle Brewer on guitars and Jed Arnow drums-augmented with the wonderful Aoife O'Donovan of Crooked Still and Sometymes Why adding vocal harmonies to the disc. There is an energy here that cannot be denied and generally is not seen in someone this young in an acoustic band. This is not an album of passive songs that easily fall into the background it is front and center and carries the listener along on its journey. On Bird Song we are treated to some lush vocals and some very well played acoustic jazz, pop, or folk (sometimes in various combinations) songs that raise the bar for other singers that wish to enter this arena. She composed all of the 13 songs on the disc, one, Bird Song, was co-written with one of her Wailing Jennys cohorts Nicky Mehta. This is the first full length CD by Masse who was/is a bass playing vocalist with The Wailing Jennys, a folk group that that has had great success and made a good name for themselves.
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