MARCY MARXER
Things are Coming My Way
Community Music 206
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If you’ve got a blues, country, gospel, or old-time song
that can be plucked, picked, or strummed on any kind of stringed instrument,
Marcy Marxer will play it and make you happy that she did. Her latest
collection of present and future standards has three tracks that pay direct
tribute to Django Reinhardt and several others that mirror his gypsy soul and
loose jazz influences. There is an especially sharp interpretation of
Reinhardt’s “Montagne Sainte Geneviève” in which she tosses off swift runs on
her Gibson L4 like so much dust from her soles. She gets positively 1920’s
Hawaiian in her ukulele-laced cover of “I’ll See You in My Dreams,” goes swamp
bluesy on “Kissing In the Dark,” a song first popularized by Memphis Minnie in
1953, gives a folk treatment to the title track, and joins forces with Cathy
Fink and Grace Griffith to gives an Andrews Sisters spin to “It’s the Girl”
and "Girl Django." Heck, Marxer even gets down to a bongo beat on “Brasil.” The one thing she
doesn’t do is get on board with the flavor of the month. Marxer’s albums are
generally delicious throwbacks and this one is no exception. So step into the
Way Back Machine and enjoy the ride!--Rob
Weir
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