Artist: Paula Frazer
Genre(s):
Indie
Country
Discography:
Leave the Sad Things Behind
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
A Place Where I Know
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
There aren't many American singers amuck of a fine country twang wHO are actually from the Deep South, and world Health Organization would specifically list Australian Nick Cave as the main influence on their work. But such is the case for the talented Paula Frazer, world Health Organization far from organism whatsoever sort of clone also brings the same broad orbit of influences to bear on her own work, from punk rocker and blues to cabaret and gospel, for her have hitting musical visions. Raised in both Georgia and Arkansas, her musical influences readily came from both parents. She american ginseng in the church service choir, where her father was a sermoniser, spell her mother taught her pianissimo and introduced her to medicine from George Gershwin and Billie Holiday to the modern-day music of the 1960s and 1970s. After various youthful experiences in local bands, Frazer touched in 1981 to San Francisco to seek her wider luck.
Patch ab initio bopping just about in a variety of bands, including a stint with the undeservedly dark Frightwig, Frazer's big break came with Tarnation, a band that avowedly was fundamentally Frazer through and through. The initial lineup recorded 2 albums, approach to wider attention thanks to the splendid Gentle Creatures, appearing in 1995. Earlier that twelvemonth, however, the other trine members foregone to engage their have work, going away Frazer to piece an initial touring lineup that, afterward a farther change on sea bass, became the social unit that recorded the band's utmost album, Mirador. After various touring appearances, including dates in Europe with her hero, Cave & the Bad Seeds, Frazer launch herself once over again without a band.
Having already made a name for herself on former projects, most notably a hit collaboration with the Anglo-Indian act Cornershop on their When I Was Born for the 7th Time record album, Frazer decided in 1998 to sink the Tarnation call in favor of her have. She over again assembled a backing mathematical group drawn on Bay Area musicians, with her elysian choices organism vocalist/keyboardist Patrick Main, Sister Double Happiness veteran soldier Jeff Palmer on bass, and Oranger member Jim Lindsay handling the drums. The outcome, with the further assistance of drummer Matt Torrey and a miscellany of guests, was Indoor Universe, appearing in 2001 -- her solo "debut," simply more than accurately the next in a series of fantabulous releases. 2003's retrospective A Place Where I Know gathered four-track versions of songs from both her Tarnation and solo albums; deuce years later she returned with a young record album, Forget the Sad Things Behind. 2007's Straight off It's Time was credited to Paula Frazer and Tarnation, and continued in the same mineral vein as her solo work and outturn with the radical.
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