Time: 49:24
Size: 113.1 MB
Styles: New Orleans blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front
[3:40] 1. Long Road Back
[3:42] 2. Break Me Down
[4:26] 3. Promised Land
[3:33] 4. Right At The Gate
[3:46] 5. Nobody Knows Like Me
[4:06] 6. A Place For Me
[4:00] 7. Abraham And Alice
[3:11] 8. Unravelled
[4:25] 9. And Everything Changed
[3:18] 10. Dress Of Fire
[3:45] 11. Trouble With Waters
[3:13] 12. You Better Turn Around
[4:14] 13. Fire, Wind And Water
On Sugarcane Revival, (May, 2015) Mississippi native, Beth McKee offers fiery-sweet songs of tenacity and purpose, sung to a deep southern groove. The resulting sound is a composite of the places she’s called home; Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana and Florida.
Downbeat Magazine’s four-star review states that Beth “honors blues, r&b, gospel and Southern rock traditions just as surely as she gives them contemporary voice in her fresh-as-a-Gulf-breeze music.” Living Blues describes Sugarcane Revival as a “superb album of introspective Gulf Coast roots music” and New Orleans Offbeat says “This is accessible music with real substance.” The appeal of her honest vocals and roots-y piano style was evident on McKee’s previous solo albums, Next to Nowhere (2012) and I’m That Way, the 2010 tribute to Chess Record’s Louisiana legend Bobby Charles. McKee used the albums to establish a solo career after her 1990s success with New Orleans-based MCA Records act Evangeline. Bobby Charles was so impressed with Beth’s interpretations of his songs that he asked her to sing with him on his own record, “Timeless,” which would be the last before his death. “Bobby Charles mastered simplicity and universal truth in his songs; Beth was his favorite interpreter of the bared-soul truth his songs communicated,” says Jim Bateman, Charles’ longtime manager. “Everything she does taps into that universal thread that everyone understands without thinking.”
A working pianist from the age of 14, Beth Mckee’s musical identity began catching wind once she moved to Austin, Texas. After some time spent playing in bars and blues bands, Beth was recruited by Greg “Fingers” Taylor to join his band and embarked on a tour opening for Jimmy Buffett. Afterwards, Beth moved to New Orleans to join Evangeline and the group was quickly signed to Buffett’s MCA Nashville imprint, Margaritaville Records. Beth released two albums with the group before setting off to create her own musical legacy.
Downbeat Magazine’s four-star review states that Beth “honors blues, r&b, gospel and Southern rock traditions just as surely as she gives them contemporary voice in her fresh-as-a-Gulf-breeze music.” Living Blues describes Sugarcane Revival as a “superb album of introspective Gulf Coast roots music” and New Orleans Offbeat says “This is accessible music with real substance.” The appeal of her honest vocals and roots-y piano style was evident on McKee’s previous solo albums, Next to Nowhere (2012) and I’m That Way, the 2010 tribute to Chess Record’s Louisiana legend Bobby Charles. McKee used the albums to establish a solo career after her 1990s success with New Orleans-based MCA Records act Evangeline. Bobby Charles was so impressed with Beth’s interpretations of his songs that he asked her to sing with him on his own record, “Timeless,” which would be the last before his death. “Bobby Charles mastered simplicity and universal truth in his songs; Beth was his favorite interpreter of the bared-soul truth his songs communicated,” says Jim Bateman, Charles’ longtime manager. “Everything she does taps into that universal thread that everyone understands without thinking.”
A working pianist from the age of 14, Beth Mckee’s musical identity began catching wind once she moved to Austin, Texas. After some time spent playing in bars and blues bands, Beth was recruited by Greg “Fingers” Taylor to join his band and embarked on a tour opening for Jimmy Buffett. Afterwards, Beth moved to New Orleans to join Evangeline and the group was quickly signed to Buffett’s MCA Nashville imprint, Margaritaville Records. Beth released two albums with the group before setting off to create her own musical legacy.
Sugarcane Revival