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City: Baltimore
State: Maryland
Country: US
Signup Date: 8/29/2005

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Sunday, August 09, 2009 



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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 

Category: Music
I just got back from the International Folk Alliance Conference, and
wow.

Before I get into that, I need to remind you that I am opening for
Cletus and Lori this Friday. I would LOVE to see you there so I can
tell you all about Memphis in person! The show details are included at
the bottom of this diatribe, and of course I'll be on the air tomorrow
talking about the upcoming show and Memphis (aah, Memphis) tomorrow.

Now, back to my story :-)

11 showcases and 4 late nights of jamming later....

Here are a few highlights:

David Glaser popped into one of my showcases and played some blues
with me. BIG fun.

The coolest people come from Texas, or they move there - who knew?
And Boston rocks, too.

I got to sing with some of my favorite voices;
ie Helena Nash, Joe Jencks (who will be here this spring, so look for
him http://www.joejencks.com ), Dan Navarro, Eric Schwartz, and the
list goes on endlessly.

6:30 Sunday morning - I sang Leonard Cohen's "Halelujah" with a choir
that included the aforementioned folks, PLUS Julie Christensen, who
spent years singing it with LEONARD!!! That was a moment I won't soon
forget.

I could go on, but you have a life to get back to, and I have a ton
of follow-up to get moving on.

Thanks for reading all of my ramblings - I hope to see you soon!

Cheers,
KO
http://www.karynoliver.com 
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Monday, January 21, 2008 

Current mood:  catalyzed
Category: Music

If you missed Sunday night's live show on RYR with Andy Och, it's re-broadcasting on Monday, January 21st, at 2 pm, EST. That'd be 7pm in the UK, 8pm in The Netherlands, and, well, you do the math from here :-)

http://www.wryr.org

http://www.karynoliver.com

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Sunday, January 20, 2008 

Category: Music
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
WRYR, 97.5 FM - http://www.wryr.org
Local Lowdown w/ Andy Och - 9:00 pm EST
http://www.wryr.org
Sherwood, MD
USA
..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = SKYPE />410-867-9677
Price: FREE - listen away!

I'll be in the studio with Andy - talking, and playing live! Call us!
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 

Current mood:  ecstatic
Category: Music

Karyn Oliver - Hurricane

4 out of 5 stars

Maverick, August 2007

www.karynoliver.com

Impressive genre defying debut from Baltimore

singer-songwriter. From the sensual saxophone intro

to the first track "America's" it's clear that this

record is something special. The lyrics to this

opener echo the pain of seeing the world's richest

nation failing to live up to the standards expected

by its citizens and the backing wails in sympathy

carried along by Karyn's plaintive 'Oh, America,

Where are you now?'

The mood lightens with the countrified "Flutterby's"

warning against the flutterby by dangers of

first love. As with all the tracks the backing for

this is superb with some great guitaring from husband,

Matt Lehr. The next track, "Nothing To

Remember" is the killer track of the whole CD.

This is a lovely, sad love ballad, recalling Mary-

Chapin Carpenter at her best, over a Tex-Mex feel

underpinned by David Zee's melodica. A straight

up rocker next with "No Rest."

There is a tendency on a debut album to try to

showcase all the aspects of your talent and given

that this is your big chance is understandable and

no bad thing. Unfortunately, it can tend to lead to

a slightly uneven feel to the album as a whole

which is why this feed-back fuelled rock'n'roll, although

excellently done, feels like it belongs on a

different CD.

This feeling is amplified by the following track

the excellent "Morning" sung totally unaccompanied.

It's clear from this track and others

throughout the CD that Karyn Oliver has a terrific,

soulful voice that is shown to great effect in

the title track "Hurricane" which follows. The

album really hits a groove with the upbeat "I'm

Still Here", again with some great guitar.

I'm assuming that the next track, "St Mary's", is

autobiographical detailing the awfulness of being

taught by nuns and how the experience still

haunts her. This seems like a good point to point

out the sheer quality of the song writing. All the

songs are written by Karyn Oliver and move from

ballads to rockers without any drop in quality.

The lyrics are intelligent and often poignant. As

stated above it is clear this debut is designed to

show the breadth of Karyn's songwriting talents as

well as her vocal skills. We therefore next get the

cool funk of "The Rain" followed by the

alt.country sound of "Baynesville" and "Missing"

(Come Back to Me). Last up we have an emotional

unaccompanied "Cold Water's Fire." This is an exceptional

debut by a very talented singer and

songwriter backed by a truly sympathetic group of

musicians.

My only quibble would be that it tries a bit too

hard to be a showcase for all the aspects of Oliver's

abilities but with this amount of talent on

show it's a small point. I think that once Karyn

decides the direction of her music then she has

the capacity to follow this through to enormous

success.

pg 88 maverick

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Friday, September 08, 2006 

Category: Music

GOT MUSIC?

If you are a musician local to the Baltimore region (this includes DC, Philadelphia, etc., but focuses heavily on Baltimore), I am accepting submissions for my show on Loyola College Radio WLOY http://www.wloy.org

Just send 2 copies of your CD(s) to:

Karyn Oliver, WLOY, 4501 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD  21210

Please include upcoming local gig announcements.

 

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