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Posted: July 3, 2007 - 1:21 pm
Emily Kurn
Check out this new track, "If I am American," from folk artist Emily Kurn. The local singer-songwriter will release her latest album at Snow Goose Theatre on July 14 at 9 p.m. with members of the Whipsaws and other special guests.
Her song "Mississippi Moon" won second place in the Woody Guthrie Songwriting Contest and she’ll be performing it at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival on July 13 in Okemah, Okla., the day before her Anchorage release.
Tickets for the party are available at Metro Music and Book, Snow Goose or on her Web site. They are $10 in advance or $12 at the door.
-Rosey Robards
What do you think of the new tracks? Post a comment below.
July 9, 2007 - 11:29am | pushplay
It is wonderful to know Emily has such a loyal fan. I think everyone should take a listen. She has some neat stuff and she can make a mean soup. Check out this profile of her from last fall when she was a cook at Tap Root.
-Rosey
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December 3, 2007 - 2:35am | Dright
Fans are the main drive behind any artist. After all, can you imagine a
concert without them?
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1 July 4, 2007 - 11:34am | te222
More Wonderful Songs by Emily Kurn
If you love a well written song, performed with honesty and intimacy, you owe to yourself to get her CDs. The melodies are compelling and fit the lyrics. The songs are well crafted stories and vignettes sung with a voice pure and true. She doesn't tell us what to believe, she makes us believe. She doesn't tell us what things mean, she delivers meaning.
For example, Mississippi Moon laments a lost Eden, spoiled by pollution. As easy as it might be to write a lyric such as "pollution s**ks" and scream it with as much emotion as you can muster, Emily crafts lyrics and melody taking you to Eden with her. It is a place you, too, inhabit. You feel the loss in your soul, in a way that an "intellectual" discourse shouted in anger cannot hope to evoke. Neither does she condemn material wealth. Her song gives us the things that make life important, that have forever sustained the human soul, and when they vanish, we feel the loss. The song is so powerful she has no need to tell us how to make the trade-off between beauty and material wealth. She trusts us to understand. Such is the power of her songs.
Because there is a link to Mississippi Moon on this page and the song won an award, I chose it to review it. It is a great song, but not my favorite. I tend to prefer her more introspective songs. I'd love to review each of her songs, but as they say, "writing about music is like dancing about architecture." It takes much more skill than I have to convey to you that which you can experience for yourself by buying the CD.
BTW, why buy the CD when you can download most of it for free? Artists and talents like Emily are so valuable they deserve our support, and so rare that anyone can afford to be a "patron". For as little as the cost of a CD, those of us whose talents are not necessarily in the arts can make the world a more beautiful place by using our talents to help those that create beauty, - especially if it is purchased from the artist at a performance. See Emily. Buy her CDs.
Disclaimer: I have watched Emily perform for a couple years, but I don't know her personally. She once signed a CD for me, and I told her my name for the inscription. LOL
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