Showing posts with label Amanda Shaw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amanda Shaw. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Amanda Shaw - Good Southern Girl

Size: 295 MB
Time: 42:09
File: Flac
Released: 2010
Styles: Cajun/Blues
Art: Front

1. Interlude (0:12)
2. Johnny Can't Dance (4:01)
3. Meek Maids Reel (3:29)
4. Mississippi Kid (4:02)
5. One Night Stand (3:18)
6. Sweet Honey (3:49)
7. That's It I Quit (3:39)
8. What Time (2:03)
9. Yes Yes Girl (2:51)
10. Blues De La Frontier (3:51)
11. Creole Piece (0:20)
12. Cruise (2:58)
13. Git Fiddle (3:24)
14. Good Southern Girl (4:05)

Music has been engrained into Shaw’s world for as long as she can remember. That exposure greatly paid off as the Louisiana-raised musician has carved out her place in Cajun culture, and has become one of the most recognizable brands in Louisiana music. From national appearances on the Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, the Today Show's Roker-thon and the Rosie O’Donnell Show, to a once in lifetime performances with Cyndi Lauper, Shaw's magnetic presence helped her to build an extraordinary following of fans and supporters. Younger fans look up to Shaw for her pristine fiddling skills and sassy sense of style, while order fans respect her strong work ethic and sincere sensibility, but audiences of all ages agree that Shaw’s musical talent and appealing personality give her a special flair and make her an incredible representative of Louisiana’s melting pot of music.

Shaw works extremely hard to give her fans the best she has to offer, and her passion for her craft has been recognized with prestigious honors and awards throughout her career. The local artist has received dozens of honors including the Big Easy Award for Best Female Entertainer, Louisiana Music Hall of Fame Future Famer, Offbeat Magazine’s Best of the Beat Singer/Songwriter of the Year and many, many others. In the past, she has also collaborated with Grammy award-winning musicians, such as Chubby Carrier, and renowned songwriters, including Matthew Gerrard, to give her fans a superior way to experience Louisiana-rooted, world-class music.

In addition to her impressive music accolades, which include five critically acclaimed EPs and albums, Louisiana’s Sweetheart has also graced the covers and pages of esteemed magazines including Where Y’At, Offbeat, BreakThru Media, New Orleans Living, Viva NOLA, Marie Claire and many others.

“Growing up in the music industry, I have had the chance to tell my story to an international audience. I have traveled many places and experienced many cultures, but I never lose sight of my Louisiana roots. My intention with my music is to bring a little bit of Louisiana culture with me everywhere I go."

Amanda Shaw, Louisiana singer, songwriter and musician

Good Southern Girl FLAC

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Amanda Shaw - Pretty Runs Out

Released: 2008
Size: 114,2 MB
Time: 49:27
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Louisiana Fiddle Roots,Cajun,Female Vocals
Art: Big Front

01. Pretty Runs Out [3:28]
02. Chirmolito [3:10]
03. French Jig [3:14]
04. Brick Wall [3:49]
05. I Don't Want To Be Your Friend [4:16]
06. Garden Of Eden [4:14]
07. What's Wrong With You? [4:24]
08. Mcgee's Medley [4:09]
09. Wishing Me Away [4:16]
10. Gone [3:10]
11. Woulda Coulda Shoulda [3:24]
12. Medley: Reels: The Gaspe Reel/Sam's Slammer/Imogen's Ridge [4:20]
13. Easy On Your Way Out [3:28]

New Orleans-based fiddler and singer Amanda Shaw brings dazzling new energy to roots-based Louisiana music. Working with material that ranges from traditional fiddle tunes to new originals that embrace both country and rock influences, Amanda and her band, The Cute Guys, create a sound and an attitude that are both authentic and bold.

In a pop world deluged by tragic tales of teen stars gone horribly wrong, New Orleans' Amanda Shaw can seem an oasis of genuine, countrified charm. Just 16-years-old when she cut this bracing, often effervescent Rounder Records debut with the Cute Guys, (her band of country/bluegrass vets whose youngest member is three decades her senior,) Shaw's strong vocal and violin performances underscore a talent as unique as her biography. A classical violin prodigy who-- at 8-years-old--became the Baton Rouge Symphony's youngest soloist, Shaw switched to playing a diverse gumbo of Cajun-rooted music before she'd reached her teens. It's that refusal to be genre-typecast that powers much the album, as Shaw follows her muse from the effervescent, clear-eyed title track lament, into deceptively effortless cocktails of funk, country, rock, and r&b. Most of "Pretty Runs Out" is seasoned with a savory New Orleans sass, as the playful violin-horn-guitar interplay of "Brick Wall" attests with funky verve. The swampy "Chermolito" wades into bluesy Bonnie Raitt territory, while she molds the haunting "Garden of Eden" and her cover of the Diane Warren-by-way-of-Cyndi Lauper ballad "I Don't Want to Be Your Lover" forcefully into her own image. The joyous "French Jig" and a medley of reels display her nimble fiddle chops, even if "Woulda Coulda Shoulda" and the closing "Easy On Your Way Out" let her Gwen Stefani jones get the best of her. Yet Shaw's vibrant eclecticism rarely seems forced. Her musical gifts are miles beyond the manufactured teen stars who hog the headlines.(~~Jerry McCulley)

Thanks to Bluesercher
Pretty Runs Out