amy speace

Amy Speace from the album Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne available on Windbone Records (by Bryant Liggett)
Amy Speace can tell a tale. Loaded with clearly defined details, the Nashville based songwriter will pen the sad ones, backing the stories with a variety of settings. The latest from Amy Speace, Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne, delivers sadness through Gospel and Indie Folk soundtracks, subtle Blues and avant-garde Roots; the songwriter not as interested in the genre as much as the tale that lives within the song. The title track is a tour story driven by somber piano, where Amy Speace touches on the loneliness of being a performer on the road, capturing the joyous highs and downbeat lows. ‘I’m out here on my own, trying to keep this thing on track. Every day I quit this job, by night I take it back’ refers to the love/hate relationship between art and artist, wanting to be on-stage in front of an audience over anything else, miles away from the velvet rope and red tape of the areas of business that come with bringing ‘art’ into a marketplace.
 
“Ginger Ale and Lorna Doones” shares a story about recounting a tragedy and your sole memory of the event is what you ate and drank while “Back in Abilene” stages around the killing of John F. Kennedy, Saturday afternoons at the movie theatre, describing the painted ceiling in great detail, and listing those who died in a week of war; the reading a sad poem over hushed instrumentation.  Amy Speace has a knack for descriptive stories and their careful placement over delicate melodies. Call Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne an album of carefully crafted downers or a beautiful dose of poetic reality, both descriptions are synonymous phrases that nail the mood of the record. (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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