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beth bombara

8/30/2019

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​Beth Bombara (from the album Evergreen available on Lemp Electric)
It wasn’t a quest, just a cabin named Evergreen. Beth Bombara needed to clear her head and environment change from her formative years in Michigan and her adopted home of St. Louis, Missouri. Beth headed west, coming to rest in the Rocky Mountains. The songs she collected have a home under an album title that nods to the point of their creation with Evergreen, Beth Bombara recalling that ‘I wasn’t writing a new record -- at least, I didn’t think I was at the time but I’m starting to realize, that’s just what I do. I write songs. You know how trees exhale oxygen? They don’t think too hard about oxygen...it’s just a byproduct of their existence. Well, songs are a byproduct of my existence. I’ve already exhaled these songs, but maybe they’re a needed breath for someone else. And the idea that even one other person needs them is what fulfills me’
 
Her delivery has a laid back calm as the lead guitar runs rampant through “Growing Wings”, Beth Bombara letting the smooth of her voice temper the finger pointing and funk of “Good News” while the groove slithers, twisting and turning underneath “Criminal Tongue” and she admits “I’m Only Alone When I Cry” over a blend of Country and Indie Americana. Heading into the studio with her touring band, adding John Calvin Abney on keyboards (and production), Beth Bombara took a week to record Evergreen, sharing that ‘The five of us just walked in to the studio, set up in one live room, and hammered out the whole album in less than a week. It was the most fun I’ve ever had making a record. Everyone’s doing what they do...it just felt effortless’. The guitar riffs run circles around the revolving rhythms in the rock’n’roll rumble of “Upside Down” as Evergreen asks “Does It Echo” on dreamscape sonics and strums Country into “Tenderhearted”. Beth Bombara pounds out a request for the peace granted from her getaway cabin in the title track and hammers out a political message on a church basement piano for closing cut “All Good Things”.
 
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