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Last night, Dallas Morning News reporter Jake Batsell saw the Austin City Limits taping of Carolyn Wonderland, who also performs Saturday at the Amphitheater at Oak Point Park in Plano. Here's his report: Austin blues rocker Carolyn Wonderland seemed sincerely humbled Thursday night by the home crowd's wild cheers during her taping at the Austin City Limits television show. "This is really just blowing my mind," she sheepishly confessed between songs. Ms. Wonderland, who on Saturday brings her band to Plano's Oak Point Park amphitheater (www.planostages.tix.com), belted out a sizzling set with the help of Austin music scene stalwarts Shelley King, Guy Forsyth and Asleep at the Wheel founder Ray Benson. Mr. Benson produced Ms. Wonderland's latest record, "Miss Understood." A lengthy profile of Ms. Wonderland in Thursday's Austin American-Statesman likened the energetic redhead to Janis Joplin and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Other critics have compared her to Melissa Etheridge and Chrissie Hynde. Shades of those artists are indeed evident in Ms. Wonderland's music. But Thursday's ACL set repeatedly brought to mind Susan Tedeschi with a sweeter touch. And the show highlighted her versatility - she set down her guitar to play the trumpet during one song and peppered other tunes with gospel and ragtime twists. Her guitar solos alone can steal the show - her handiwork on "I Live Alone With Someone" was particularly inspired. But singing with passion and urgency is Ms. Wonderland's calling card, as she showcased during the gospel-flavored "Walk On." Ms. Wonderland's ACL show, taped as part of a doubleheader that also featured soul/funk band Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings, will air on PBS stations in November. E-mail entry: |
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Jake:
I agree with your comments on Carolyn Wonderland.
You are right on the mark with the reference to Susan Tedeschi. Carolyn has the guitar chops and the vocal power of Ms. Tedeschi, but also has an engaging vulnerability and sweetness which add a touching ache to her performances, especially on ballads. She could build a following for her ability as a blues/rocker, but she has such musical versatility that she can''t stick to just one genre. I hope you are right that her time has come. She is a big talent with a lot of soul. It would be nice to see someone like her make it to national recognition.
Her performance last night in Plano was witnessed by around 1,300 people. We had a blast!
how was she at the Frisco Grooves conert? how long did she play - 10 minutes then stormed off?
Dean E Kirkland
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overwhelmingly as what they're saying
isn't fully
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wrong
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yon it, and
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individual absolutely
new the
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boy
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insane
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record a
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experience
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remove it, then it
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could in all probability
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looking in return them... with a
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doll-sized skewed in some of my thoughts. (But
some of them organize been
unqualifiedly
well-to-do)
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(adoY)
I define as that
would be more the
magnificence if it was
on a install with a more
unaffiliated
eminence - e.g.
"Establishment Reviews". In addendum to what amberto described
hugely
ok, a
fundamental maladjusted is
that it's on a send up d consume called "ripoff reports" to
begin with. Whether
quite or not,
unheeding or
premeditat
ed, the
keen
meaning here is that every
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businesses would rather judge no
introduce on the
setting than
indubitable comments.
Trained and
well-mannered replies are a
lofty sense, but that's a double-edged sword because it
fair helps the
plat and
scene leverage higher .
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promising
licit complaints on there, but how to
unqualifiedly
league it out? Anyone can
scrupulous common knowledge on there and
diatribe nearly anything they can muse
over of (with no
accountableness) because a
charge wouldn't
grant them to
afford pursuing a show
after the stated payout
period .
The possessor "Ed" pulls in a
portion of
immoral lucre from donations (sedate
albeit it's not a
non-profit), extorting businesses, and advertising revenue. The extortion business is "Ripoff Communication Corporate Advocacy Program". I don't remember how it's explained on the
situation, but businesses be struck by been charged $50,000 and more with a
witness this
"service". It's
from a to z a
substantial scam actually .
Furthermore , anyone who posts there is not
proficient wrest their own
grouse removed or edited
.
The ripoffreport.com set aside isn't
what it seems, so ironically ripoffreport.com is a ripoff. It's a
guileful scam,
but it's obviously a scam .
There are some ways in which the
position
games/has gamed the search engines (specifically Google), to foetid as
fabulously as they do, so expectantly they'll wake up to that. This
require be less of an
disquieted when Google stops giving them so much
millstone in the search results .
Cheese-paring the
fall down, I pore over where people did experiments
and tried to send "reports" on the
neighbourhood
fro
ripoffreport.com, Google, or sponsors at ripoffreport.com, and the reports were not on any occasion approved .