MICHELLE MALONE: Strange Bird Volume 4 -The Authorized Bootleg

Michelle Malone

Strange Bird Volume 4 -The Authorized Bootleg

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Roots Rock, folk pop, with a passionate kickin' edge.that voice and searing guitar solos are a double whammy one two punch. This CD is fiery and passionate, whether it's rocking with abandon or ripping your heart out -it captures Malone at her best.

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Here's what the critics say about Michelle Malone's LIVE Bootleg 3 CD:

From Billboard Magazine -
This record is fiery and passionate, whether it's rocking with abandon or ripping your heart out...it captures the live energy, which, until now, has always been the best way to discover Malone's music.


From GOGIRLS.COM -
Michelle Malone ROCKS! Easily one of the greatest voices in the business, an untouchable songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist, Michelle is always giving 110 percent.

From The Blade in NYC -
Caught in the act Singer-songwriter Michelle Malone has never been able to adequately flaunt her attributes in the studio in her decade-long tenure in the music industry.

This may be because the Atlanta-based artist imbues her spur-of-the-moment live shows with a motley assortment of audio styles -- from church gospel to grunge acoustics to unadulterated barroom rock.

With well-culled selections of Malone plying her trade in arenas, smoky watering holes, and tiny get-togethers nationwide, Strange Bird Volume 3: The Authorized Bootleg (Strange Bird Songs) remedies the dilemma of how to best portray the charismatic guitarist:It functions as a veritable chocolate box sampler of Malone's wily career.

The songs on the 14-track set span the 32-year-old artistís catalog, including vintage Malone favorites such as the jazzy "The Edge," in which she imparts the heartbreak line: "If I could erase, Iíd leave the past without a trace." But beware, fragile folkies: Mixed in between the sultry ballads are siren wails and extended rock-god guitar solos, courtesy of Malone's penchant for amped ax-grinding.

Selections such as "Grace" and "In the Weeds" will sate the heavier audiophiles among the out performerís devout fanbase.

Then there ís also Malone's impromptu zaniness, which is caught disarmingly on tape.

"Mom," she calls out into the audience to her blues singer parent, during a version of the crowd favorite "Butter Biscuit." "Will you come help us?" Thereís also the wacky Q&A session from what sounds like a house party she played.

On her formative influences, she notes: "I went from Miles Davis to Led Zeppelin, and thatís what Iím so fucked up." It's one telling tidbit -- among many -- that liseteners come away with. -Karen Iris Tucker

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