Album Review: Tie Me To You from Kathleen Grace with Larry Goldings
Album: Tie Me To You Artist: Kathleen Grace and Larry Goldings Label: Monsoon Records Website: http://kathleengracemusic.com Part soulful torch singer and part spiritual healer, vocalist Kathleen Grace fills her recording Tie Me To You with lamenting melodies that warm the listener's soul. Supported by pianist Larry Goldings, the release features original songs by Grace and Goldings in addition to cover tunes by Francois Hardy, Son House, the Beatles, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Opening the recording with the title track, Goldings musings on the glockenspiel is partnered with the weeping voicing of Gabe Witcher's violin, setting the mood for Grace's poetic verses. The languid stride of the rhythmic pattern cradles the listener in a sweet lullaby. Lifting the tempo up a few notches, "Where Or When" propagates optimistic sensations propelled by the upswing in Grace's vocal nuances while the country folk twang in ...