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Sounding like the missing link between Karen Dalton and Jolie Holland, Green's voice is a timeless, effortless throwback, unique and indisputable. The self-explanatory (at least on the surface) b-side of her first single ‘French Singer', alludes to her aspiration to be as significant an artist as, say, Edith Piaf, and her hope to convey real emotion. Already her ability exceeds Green's far too modest nature. Ably supported on nimble bass by Stuart Eastham, Green would break the heart of even the most empty individual with her delivery of lyrics like, “If I act like I never had love, it's not as if I haven't tried”.
Green's introduction to music was an education in pop, via her Dad's mix tapes. Ranging from the Stones and Chuck Berry to Jackson 5 and Elton John, they inspired Green to pick up a guitar, although it took her another seven years to learn four chords! It wasn't until she discovered finger picking that she began playing ‘properly' and writing her own songs. The style she has developed also goes some way to explaining her love affair with country and blues.
Listening to Liz Green's voice should remind you of the rapture that can be derived when certain new music is discovered for the first time.
Liz Green sounds like a shy Nina Simone, with an extraordinary voice held right back so that sometimes it's not much more than a whisper, making this an intimate and affecting perfomance. It was just her and her folky acoustic guitar, with little bluegrass flourishes and sometimes funny, sometimes achingly sad lyrical turns that hit you right in the stomach....
If there was any justice in the world, every CD player in the country would have Liz Green on repeat, or even better, every living room would have its own Liz Green in the corner, giving the type of performance that she did tonight.
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![Liz Green - Bad Medicine [CD]](http://www.humblesoul.net/catalog/images/bad_medicine_cd_disc.jpg "Liz Green - Bad Medicine [CD]")
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