Seld issued (label)
24 January 2011 (released)
14 January 2011
Miss Quincy is a raunchy and sassy young belter and she is probably right about your mama but I have to say that she really works for me!
If you are into music that declares its roots all the way back to ‘ladies’ like Ma Rainey and Big Bessie, singers with real attitude and confidence – balls maybe – and the songs that also feel as though they date from the golden age then this is for you.
The lady has some great history: she has played with the likes of CR Avery and The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra and she has played in every kind of venue from hostile barrooms to festivals and on street corners and you can hear all that history in her voice and in her songs.
She is backed up by some of the cream of the current Canadian crop of musicians – Craig Korth’s (Widow Maker) banjo and Josh Giesbrecht on violin make a great foil for her sass on ‘Dead Horse’ while Pete Mynett delivers delicious upright bass throughout and Don Gothard’s Dobro on ‘Wild Mountain Flower’ is classic Americana – but they only serve to make the songs stand up and Miss Quincy’s voice and guitar are the stars.
Style-wise she has got it all – Bluesy stuff, jazzy stuff, even some Kletzmer sounding stuff and all wrapped in an Americana/Bluegrass/Hillbilly sound that is a fresh as tomorrow but has links back to the thirties.
I have to admit that the more I listen to this little joy the more I think of ladies like Maria Muldaur and Bonnie Raitt but mostly I just cue it up again and enjoy it all over again. What an unexpected delight.
