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Allison Crowe recorded “Secrets”, a solo, singer-songwriter album, in 2004. First setting up a home studio, Allison engineered and assisted with production (alongside Rainer Willeke of Canadian r’n'b combo, Soul Station). Allison performs all vocals (lead and harmonies), plays piano, guitar, keyboards and added percussive ‘thumps’ to the collection. Secrets contains a mix of tunes from Allison’s “band days” (some of which are radically redefined), freshly-penned songs, and a couple of choice picks from other artists: Counting Crows’ brooding “Raining in Baltimore” ~ the first song Allison performed when she launched her career as a singer-songwriter; and “Joan of Arc”, a shining exemplar of Leonard Cohen’s poetic brilliance. Guest artists contributing to Secrets are: Del Crowe (guitar); Jo Lundstrom (accordion); Eric Reiswig (Uilleann pipes); and Rainer Willeke (tambourine).
I couldn’t help but think of Norah Jones when I heard this album, there must be some sort of influence or admiration by Allison towards Norah. It had a blues or more heart broken mood to it, I could picture some of these songs as the background score for a romantic comedy on that moment where the main character has been left all broken hearted and eating ice cream alone on her couch while it rains outside. My favorite song was “How Long?”, Loved the melody during the chorus.
Our props to Allison Crowe for not only playing a beautiful piano and a talented vocal performance, but for also playing every other instrument and producing this album.
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