Emmie Lee

"Pin-up Cowgirl"   single

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"I'm just a Country girl with a Rockabilly heart," is the plain-folks identification offered winkingly, by this skirt-snapper with tones of pearly lustre. As surely as Emmie Lee can plate-up melodies that slink arms about listeners, and the ace musicos accompanying m'lady put up comfortable reeling that hints at burly capacity, so too does she prove herself bang on, philosophically: "You don't have to fit in or change your world / just do what you love and let your soul be heard!" Truer words were never spake, pardner.

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The union of barn-party Country tunefulness and beat animation pleases no less now, than back when lanky ranch hands and lipsticked kittens went to town amid oak rafters, hay bales, and backy-spittin' dance callers.

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The Shutdowners

"(You Called Me a) Dreamer"   "I'm on My Way"   digital tracks

(Self-issued)

The lockdown duration produced a gladsome wonderment: Four wranglers from far-flung German locations connected, then recorded long-distance via computers. 

I'm told drummer Lutti first proposed the collaboration. Amenable to 'joining right in there' were guitarist TinCan Semmel, singer/rhythm guitarist Smalltown Felix (who assembled distinct instrumentations into digital wholes), and bass-string negotiator Midge Van Geldern.

It was some two years later that the musicians met and clasped hands. Several live appearances ensued, and crowds dug in tower block font.

Of the online songs for which members cut their contributions remotely, the two freshest are here considered:

"The night is quiet, the stars are few / I walk the streets that we once knew," begins "(You Call Me a) Dreamer." The unhurried, plain-spoken narrator relates familiar forlornness, gently ushered forward by pleasant Country ambling. By the conclusion, though - "You call me a dreamer, but now I see / This dream was never meant for you and me" - he's resigned himself to bleak truth. For listeners, though, tuneful vivacity counters melancholy.

Issued shortly before the foregoing, "I'm on My Way" is noticeably brisker. A Luther Perkins-type, bass guitar strings, timepiece reliability maintains momentum. The heart-on-sleeve protagonist, inspired by night-before initimations, drives optimistically toward his lady love, hope of rekindling passion's flame fueling as only it can.

One nearly hopes for another lockdown.

Videos: "(You Called Me a) Dreamer"   "I'm on My Way"   "She Will Come Back" (live, 2025)

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