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Ann Austin: Lost In Your Eyes
by Dan McClenaghan
Cape Cod-based vocalist Ann Austin sounds blue collar, blue jeans, with an unaffected and straightforward delivery and pipes with some power when she needs it. Throw in the occasional world-weariness and an underlying toughness--tinted with vulnerability--and she sounds like a lady who sings in a bar somewhere--and does it very well, exploring themes of love, longing, love lost, problems with love.The “love themes" might sound country & western, but Austin's gig is more straight-on popular songs with a ...
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All About Jazz
Last August, Austin had a simple conversation with reknown jazz pianist John Harrison III. Well, one thing led to another, which led to another and Austin found herself in the recording studio: PBS Studios in Westwood, Mass., to be specific, with engineer Peter Kontrimas. “Little did I realize the adventure I was about to embark on," says Ann in the liner notes. The adventure, and the satisfaction derived from that adventure, is evident from the first few grooves of Ann's ...
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