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MP3 Laura Baron - Scenes From The Avenue
13 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Jazz Vocals, FOLK: Folk Blues
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Singer-songwriter Laura Baron lives in Bethesda, but her latest CD would make you think she is from New Orleans or Paris.
She belts out the blues in a primal, earthy way. But don''t be fooled. As often as not, her voice is delicate, reed-thin, pleading, vulnerable -- breathtakingly beautiful.
Most of the songs on her new release, "Scenes from the Avenue," produced by Bobby Read are original.
One of the CD''s highlight is "Winter Don''t Own Me" the Gold Award winner in the jazz/blues category at the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest in 2007.
"A lot of times in my music I present the problem and free it up, not necessarily with a solution but with a spiritual opening," Baron said. "I can''t really say (I''m) jazz or blues or folk -- it''s never really purely that. It''s really my way to express something deeper."
She likes the song on her CD "Kindness Don''t Rest Easy," because of its message.
"It''s a statement and a prayer," Baron remarked. "It''s a fact, there is something inside of us that reaches out, like Martin Luther King reached out. It''s a prayer, ''don''t rest easy now, don''t shut your eyes to the world, the world is in pain.''
"When I wrote this song, I wanted to say, it''s not always the big things you do. It''s also the little things ... So for people who feel they can''t do a lot, in terms of a message song, that''s pretty strong."
"I wrote children''s music that was very folk-oriented early in my career," she said. "It started out as traditional folk. From there I started getting into jazz. Jazz combos. I was in a big band for a number of years."
Her career co-producing children''s music with Patti Dallas was very successful. Their company sold thousands of recordings across the country and won awards.
Some of that refreshing, story-telling kid''s stuff must have rubbed off when she was composing "North Star."
"I wanted to write a song about people who were longing for their loved ones who are coming back from Iraq, but to use Iraq would be too painful in my opinion," Baron said. "So I put it in the 1800s. It is about a woman longing for her loved one to come back from a whaling expedition in a storm in Maine."
At The Athenaeum, Ashton, Va., resident Bill Mulroney heard her sing it. "That song about the 18th century girl was over the top," he gushed. "It was gorgeous. Her folk music is the best."
Laytonsville resident David Hall said, "I noticed on her guitar playing her technique is very light. She crosses a lot of genres. Of all the local artists, I think, frankly, she''s the best. She''s brilliant."
by Pam Rigaux, Frederick News Post, May 2008
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