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| Vocalist/Songwriter KATHLEEN GRACE and LARRY GOLDINGS' "TIE ME TO YOU" Vocalist and songwriter Kathleen Grace delivers her most intimate recording yet with the release of her newest album, TIE ME TO YOU, with renowned jazz pianist Larry Goldings. The album was born from a place of new awakening and self-discovery, the kind that can trigger massive change and devastating loss, but ultimately, also hope. Grace is firmly rooted in the jazz tradition, while embracing her own eclecticism within the blues, folk and pop realms; her sound moves between the traditional and an approachable modernity. TIE ME TO YOU features original music by both Grace and Goldings as well as covers of pieces by French icon Francois Hardy, blues great Son House and The Beatles, and standards by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hart. As Grace describes it, she didn't make TIE ME TO YOU exactly—it arrived fully formed just as her life both fell apart and came together. Her personal awakening cost her the marriage that had consumed her adult life. She wanted a recording that would be spontaneous enough to capture all that she was feeling, without big arrangements or post-production fixes. She envisioned simple songs broken down into their most basic parts. What emerged was a portrait of a mourning woman as she must let go—the end of a relationship, the transition into the love of another and the struggle in realizing one's own personal identity. At once viscerally relatable and powerful in its intimacy, the album beautifully weaves Grace's evolving perspective on the human condition with an open vulnerability that invites listeners to be just as sensitive with themselves. The debut album from Kathleen Grace and Larry Goldings, TIE ME TO YOU takes a fragmented listener and makes them whole with its ethereal, textured arrangements set against Grace's subtle yet emotive voice. Love may be temporary, but Grace shows us that through hardship and transformation lies beauty, strength and a heightened sense of self. Track List: Tie Me To You Kathleen Grace & Larry Goldings Where Or When Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart Everywhere Kathleen Grace John The Revelator Traditional Berceuse George Moustaki The Thill Is Gone Ray Henderson & Lew Brown Embarcadero Kathleen Grace & Darek Oleszkiewicz Love For Sale Cole Porter What'll I Do Irving Berlin I'll Follow The Sun John Lennon & Paul McCartney write your comments about the article :: © 2020 Jazz News :: home page |