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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
 LOS ANGELES, CA-- Singer-songwriter Heather Waters lifts off with a batch of fresh new tunes on her forthcoming CD, propeller, scheduled for release on April 24 on the independent Mighty Like a Rosebud Records.
Waters, who earned reams of critical praise on her last release,shadow of you, glows on propeller with a collection of songs that signals she’s not only comfortable stepping out of her Americana sweetheart shoes, she excels at it. Recorded in Los Angeles with Waters producing, the CD is a vibrant musical and lyrical landscape, drawing from an array of genres to craft a sound as rich as it is rocking… as torchy as it is rootsy.
The CD opens with “Diane,” a Delphic murder ballad swathed in eerie New England imagery and haunting Hammond B3 swells. On the first single, “Wait for Me,” which will go to AAA radio in May, Michael Chaves’ edgy guitar and the driving bass and drum groove of rhythm section powerhouses Sean Hurley and Craig Macintyre announce an energizing new direction. The result is crisp, satisfying and hip… like the lovechild of Rilo Kiley and Emmylou Harris. Co-written with Rich McCulley for Waters’ late grandmother June, “Wait for Me” is a shining example of her tremendous growth as a writer and producer.
Waters’ soulful roots are evident in the greasy gospel treatment she gave to Sean Staples’ “Joy Comes Back to Me” and on “Stone & Concrete,” a pensive tale of betrayal set against a backdrop of the Hollywood sign, Beach Boy harmonies and Peter Adams’ (Michael Penn) achingly beautiful piano. While the new material hums with deeper R&B grooves, there are several richly romantic heartbreakers for which Waters is known. Fans of Willie Nelson’s Teatro will fall in love with “Six Ways to Sunday,” a bittersweet lullaby that mingles Latin flavored guitar with punch drunk Wurli. The disc closes with Castaway, a passionate Motown-esque narrative inspired by a friend’s unplanned pregnancy and bitter divorce.
This April, Waters and songwriting partner McCulley will be touring the Midwest and East Coast. Their first stop is the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, where the duo will not only perform for the general prison population, but also for death row inmates, a first in the history of the prison. Waters muses, “It’s a little mind blowing, especially if you consider that I may be performing the last live music someone hears. Loretta Lynn performed at ISP in the 80s, so at the very least, I’ll be following in some pretty solid footsteps.”
With rising divas like Feist and Amy Winehouse reminding audiences of the beauty of a good melody soulfully sung, Waters stands to rocket to new heights with propeller.
Pre-orders and downloads are currently available through
www.heatherwaters.com , where her previous releases are also available.
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Biography:
Every once in a rare moment of time, you stumble across singers who still surrounding noise simply by raising their voice. Their power doesn’t lie in their ability to out-shout competition (although a talent for generating superhuman volume a la Little Feat’s Shaun Murphy is certainly impressive). It’s in their gift for connection. They grab listeners’ ears and compel them to pay attention by resolutely turning inward and excavating all the passion and poetry they find churning within themselves. Heather Waters has that gift.
Indie hipsters and jaded industry mavens have often cut the club chatter to key in on what Waters does onstage. Once she adjusts her vintage microphone, she seemingly transports herself to some other place in time as she sings the blazes out of heartbreak ballads, a cappella gospel chestnuts and bluesy confessionals burning with candid need and longing. With her eyes closed and hands hovering around her mic, the effect is one of a prayerful supplicant in communion with her muse.
Offstage, all that musical transcendence gets blasted by Waters’ irreverent humor. The woman can be gleefully, wickedly funny... just ask her to share some of her stories about making the rounds of Chicago blues clubs when she was first starting out. After a tough childhood in the Chicago area, she transplanted herself to Boston’s storied singer-songwriter community and then Nashville, where roadhouse rocker Delbert McClinton and his wife became substitute family. She opened countless shows for the veteran bluesman and sang harmony alongside the likes of Emmylou Harris on McClinton’s Grammy-nominated album, “Room to Breathe."
Waters recently finished mastering her new record, propeller, on which she took the reigns and stepped into the producer's shoes. "You can either thank or blame Greg Leisz for that. He convinced me that I had it in to me to drive this one," she says with a laugh.” Recorded in Los Angeles, propeller is a vibrant musical and lyrical landscape; it’s as rich as it is rocking… as torchy as it is rootsy.
The CD opens with “Diane,” a Delphic murder ballad swathed in eerie New England imagery and haunting Hammond B3 swells. On “Wait for Me,” Michael Chaves’ edgy guitar and the driving bass and drum groove of rhythm section powerhouses Sean Hurley and Craig Macintyre announce an energizing new direction. The result is crisp, satisfying and hip… what the lovechild of Rilo Kiley and Emmylou Harris would sound like. Co-written with Rich McCulley for Waters’ late grandmother June, “Wait for Me” is a shining example of her tremendous growth as a writer and producer.
Waters’ soulful roots are evident in the greasy gospel treatment she gave to Sean Staples’ “Joy Comes Back to Me” and on “Stone & Concrete,” a pensive tale of betrayal set against a backdrop of the Hollywood sign, Beach Boy harmonies and Peter Adams’ (Michael Penn) achingly beautiful piano. While the new material hums with deeper R&B grooves, there are several richly romantic heartbreakers for which she is known. Fans of Willie Nelson’s Teatro will fall in love with “Six Ways to Sunday,” a bittersweet lullaby that mingles Latin flavored guitar with punch drunk Wurli. The disc closes with “Castaway,” a passionate Motown-esque narrative inspired by a friend’s unplanned pregnancy and bitter divorce.
With rising divas like Feist and Amy Winehouse reminding audiences of the beauty of a good melody soulfully sung, Waters stands to rocket to new heights with propeller.
By: Bliss
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| Webpage: http://www.heatherwaters.com |
| Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Description: Sounds like the lovechild of Rilo Kiley and Emmylou Harris |
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