If you frequent the same kind of used-to-be-smoky clubs that I do,
you're surely familiar with the very specific elation one feels when
an unknown performer quietly takes the stage, acoustic guitar in hand,
and his first notes cut clean and true through the din of conversation
and clinking glasses. Your ears perk right up. This kid can play, you
think to yourself, and he can SING. I wonder what his name is...
Matthew Gair's record "And She Whispered I Told You So..." is the
closest approximation to that feeling you can get without actually
being in a tiny club. It sounds so live that I found myself straining
to hear the audience in the background. It's as if you could reach out
and touch the guy. It was only when, a few songs in, an echo effect is
applied to a vocal line in Assisi, that I was convinced that I wasn't
just hearing a live recording.
You really get a little bit of everything with this one. From the
man-do-I-wanna-compare-this-to-Raffi album opener Friday, to Blue
Side Down, which sounds like it's a not-quite-joking tribute to
Tenacious D's "Tribute," Matther Gair covers a lot of ground and still
manages to maintain a consistent, inviting sound.
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