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Instrument: Vocals

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Seven Women (Plus Three) 2018 – Part XI

by C. Michael Bailey
December 6, 2018

Kris Adams We Should Have Danced Self Produced 2018 There is a special significance to Kris Adams's release We Should Have Danced. The recording features Adam's original lyrics with arrangements by pianist Tim Ray, of compositions of the late Steve Prosser, Adams' former husband and Berklee College of Music professor. Shortly after Prosser's passing away in 2012, Adams came across a folder titled “Songs for CD" among the items he had left behind for ...

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Nancy Erickson: While Strolling Through the Park

Read "While Strolling Through the Park" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
January 23, 2016

Listening to “New Year's Eve," Nancy Erickson's original composition opening her third recording, While Strolling Through the Park, makes me recall the songwriting of Dr. Louise Van Aarsen (Destiny (Self Produced, 2012)). Both sport a very contemporary and adult vision of falling in love, having a family and simply living. That is refreshing in that this songwriting lack the grandiloquent melodrama of the Great American Songbook. It is music for everyone. Erickson's “Summer Day" and “The Whippoorwill Song" echo this ...