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Like Rebekah, Billie Myers has wide-ranging musical tastes. "I listen to many things," says Myers. "I love Deana Carter. Alana Davis. Radiohead." Her album is filled with moderately paced, big-hearted rock. Myers has a strong, sure sense of melody, and most of her songs make a strong impression even after just the first hearing. The chorus of the lilting A Few Words Too Many dances along, gracefully pulling the listener in. The stomping Tell Me has an Indian flavor spiced with a flute and a sitar. One of the best songs, You Send Me Flying, with its acoustic...
...sign to a major record company and who performs often raucous punk-folk songs about music-industry greed, abortion and her own bisexuality. DiFranco is so fiercely protective of her work that she was miffed when a recent cover of one of her songs, 32 Flavors, by newcomer Alana Davis added a few lyrics (Davis' rendition, by the way, is terrific). But what's truly surprising about the first track on DiFranco's new album, which is also the title song, is just how good-natured and downright jaunty it is. After the first verse, DiFranco lets loose a country...
...Alana Davis Blame It on Me (Elektra) A fresh and uncommonly rich fusion of blues and folk-pop, Davis' debut is a stunningly mature work for a songwriter of just 23. Combining the twang of Bonnie Raitt and the soulfulness of Tracy Chapman, Davis uses her serene voice to breathe light and life into songs, creating a captivating, genre-bending sound...
There is something oceanic about the music of singer-songwriter Alana Davis, 23. Her enchanting debut album, Blame It on Me (Elektra), has a pacific calm to it, undulating with soft folk, light jazz and warm R. and B., and yet, beneath the serene surface, one senses a depth, a power, precious things hidden away like sunken treasure ships. In concert one gets more of a glimpse: Davis has a sensuous, sliding alto, young and vibrant, but infused with old, smoky blues. She is a major new talent...
When asked what exactly those demands are, it seems ALANA does not know. Harvard students should adopt the same spirit. Dartboard would like to propose a sit-in here at Harvard. Let's do our part in the fight against The Man. Protests...