[Gbrooks-promo] This Thursday ** LENI STERN "Love Comes Quietly" with George Brooks + Barbara Higbie

[George Brooks]

                                               8pm
Freight & Salvage
Coffee House
1111 Addison Street / Berkeley, CA 94702
(510) 548-1761 / info at freightandsalvage.org



Hello All-

I wanted to let you know that one of my dear friends... song-writer,  
vocalist and guitarist extraordinaire, Leni Stern, will be coming to  
town, for one night only, to celebrate the release of her new CD,  
"Love Comes Quietly".


I will be performing with Leni and the Bay Area's own Barbara  
Higbiethis Thursday at the Freight and Salvage, Berkeley's premier  
venue for acoustic music.


LENI STERN "Love Comes Quietly" LSR

LATE LAST YEAR singer-songwriter and guitarist Leni Stern released a  
four-song EP called "10,000 Butterflies" that pointed at intriguing  
things on the horizon. Now comes the payoff: a new CD featuring those  
tracks and nine others that will only enhance Stern's reputation for  
creating music that radiates a haunting power and beauty.

These days it's impossible to neatly sum up Stern's sound. Elements  
of folk, pop, jazz, soul and funk clearly inspire her, along with an  
increasingly strong current of world beat influences. On "Love Comes  
Quietly," a collection of songs and instrumentals, Stern embraces  
everything from Motown grooves to Indian modes, and yet there's  
nothing that sounds fashionably eclectic or the least bit showy.  
Instead, a chamber-like intimacy often prevails, a quality enhanced  
by a series of imaginatively woven arrangements featuring Stern's  
yearning voice, poetic imagery, liquid guitar lines and the nimble  
support of bassist James Genus, slide guitarist Stephen Bruton,  
violinist Ernesto Villa-Lobos and others. A sense of wonder and hope  
marks some of the ballads -- the album's title cut and "Have Faith in  
Me," for starters. But that doesn't mean that Stern's songwriting  
lacks a sharp, ironic edge. Just listen to "Beauty Queen," a  
perceptive vignette about Manhattan street life, or "10,000  
Butterflies," the album's foreboding highlight, or "The Road to  
Hell," which sounds like something Rickie Lee Jones and guitarist  
Bill Frisell might have concocted. In the end, though, it's hard to  
imagine anyone but Stern pulling all of this together with as much  
charm and conviction.

-- Mike Joyce




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