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Denise La Grassa
With Denise La Grassa's releases of her 9-song album “Sundown Rising,” it’s easy to look back now on how poem-songs she wrote as a wee child foreshadowed a late-blooming full-time blues music career. Those songs were just a warm-up for the spunky 5-year-old, who went door-to-door in her suburban Chicago neighborhood offering to sing and sell them to neighbors – right on their doorstep - for 25 cents apiece. Artist? Check. Entrepreneur? Check.
Fast forward to the small Wisconsin town of Baraboo, the audacious now 8th grader accepted a challenge from the town’s legendary Circus World Museum to break the world record for muscle grinds on a trapeze. She succeeded, securing for a brief time an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Sundown Rising
Label: deelagee Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Sundown Rising; None of Your Business; Hope in Love; Key to the Highway; Vision of Good Rule Makers;
The Door; Sweet Talk; Quit Your Whining; Loving For Love’s Sake
April Dreams
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2009
Track listing: Get Home & Give Me Love; April Dreams; Deep Down Love; Yesterday's Replay; Best Day; Sweet Talk; Perfect Little Girl; Waited a Lifetime; String of a Kite; Loving for Loves Sake.
Denise La Grassa: April Dreams
by Matthew Warnock
April Dreams is a sultry album of original pop/jazz vocal compositions by Illinois-based singer Denise La Grassa. Featuring the solid rhythm-section work of guitarist Scott Tipping, bassist Matt Thompson, drummer Gerald Dowd and pianist Ben Lewis, the album is both tasteful and emotionally engaging. With catchy melodies, a strong ensemble performance and well-written lyrics, April Dreams ...
