Jazz Articles about Ann Austin

Ann Austin: Lost In Your Eyes

by Dan McClenaghan
November 19, 2004

Cape Cod-based vocalist Ann Austin sounds blue collar, blue jeans, with an unaffected and straightforward delivery and pipes with some power when she needs it. Throw in the occasional world-weariness and an underlying toughness--tinted with vulnerability--and she sounds like a lady who sings in a bar somewhere--and does it very well, exploring themes of love, longing, love lost, problems with love.The “love themes" might sound country & western, but Austin's gig is more straight-on popular songs with a ...