New Zealand's Donna Dean
She's an artist not to be missed. A velvet voice with something to
say. A songwriter's songwriter. New Zealand's Donna Dean has
gone about the business of making her music over the years,
winning multiple APRA and Tui awards for her songwriting and record production, recording with Russell Smith & the Amazing
Rhythm Aces, working with...
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New Zealand's Donna Dean
She's an artist not to be missed. A velvet voice with something to
say. A songwriter's songwriter. New Zealand's Donna Dean has
gone about the business of making her music over the years,
winning multiple APRA and Tui awards for her songwriting and record production, recording with Russell Smith & the Amazing
Rhythm Aces, working with the likes of Jimmy Webb and Don
McLean, and wroting the title track to Rhonda Vincent’s 2010
Grammy nominated bluegrass album – “Destination Life”
Her Tui Award nominated album, "Tyre Tracks & Broken Hearts,"
is full of stories that find their voices within the cracks in the
pavement, not on the main highway but on the backroads where
most of us live our lives. It features legendary guitarists Amos
Garrett and Albert Lee along with Texas pickers Redd Volkaert and Gurf Morlix and a whole cast of excellent musicians.
No Depression Magazine has this to say:
" This album is – let’s call it Donna’s “Nebraska.” Like Bruce Springsteen it’s far more personal, a little more laid back than the previous album…
Most artists wait a lifetime to write one as good as this. Donna Dean’s music sparkles and sparkles and stays with you even when it’s not playing anymore. These songs light off each other continuously and remain lit because they make that kind of impression.
Donna Dean is far closer to the traditions of an Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Rhonda Vincent, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Martha Wainwright (and she’s from Canada), than the country artists who are beginning to sound more like commercial pop music. The proof is in the music. Donna is one of the best country singers NOT from the United States. She remains an artist the naïve American country media (and audience maybe) have yet to discover. And this is despite a slow concentrated build in popularity by the ears who have been fortunate to hear this marvelous voice."
--John Apice -- No Depression, March 2013
Come see for yourself. Not just another singer songwriter with an accent and a pretty voice. Donna Dean is the real deal.
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