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Lucy Woodward & the Rocketeers: Plain Gold Ring

By Ludovico Granvassu
November 16, 2024
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Here is a song that is striking for how well it combines beauty and complexity without any need for compromise between these two traits. "Plain Gold Ring" is the opening song of the self titled album by Lucy Woodward and the Rocketeers.

Woodward has a track record of tackling iconic songs tightly associated with musicians like Willie Dixon, Terence Trent D'Arby, Blind Willie Johnson or, like in the case of "Plain Gold Ring," Nina Simone and not make you miss the original... only musicians with a very distinctive personality can do that.

The combination of grit and finesse one finds in Woodwards music is quite rare. On this album that combination is perfectly complemented by a large ensemble of, mostly Dutch, musicians recorded in a studio but in one of the Netherlands premiere venues: Rotterdam's LantarenVenster.

Contact Ludovico Granvassu on All About Jazz.
I'm the Editor-in-Chief of All About Jazz Italia, host of Mondo Jazz on Radio Free Brooklyn and was once visited by Frank Zappa's ghost.... he was funny too.

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