5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing talent, May 30, 2010
This review is from: Grand and Green River (Audio CD)
We have seen Kara twice in person and this CD presents her talent well. She has a great stage presence and whether alone on stage or with a band she delivers. Well worth the price.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Kara Grainger's Grand and Green River - Great CD, November 7, 2009
Kara Grainger plays a great guitar and sings from someplace deep inside. She sings every song with the spirit of the blues whether it's a 12-bar or a folk song. I've heard that from the stage and I hear it on this album. Every song on this album has feeling from the gut, and none of that fancy showing off she could do if she wanted to. That's exactly the difference between that high school prodigy seems to sing the blues so well and Kara Grainger, Alberta Hunter, Bonnie Raitt, Ethel Waters, and anybody that matters with a mic in their hand. There's a little bit of church and a heaping ladle of hot stuff in this music. The assertion of the irrepressibly human over circumstances makes it blues as a statement of quality, regardless of the chord progression. The focused power of the song is as irresistible as it is irrepressible in Kara Grainger.
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