LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/
Allison Crowe Official Website) - Entertainment website Muruch announces its top 25 albums of the decade � on a list that ranges from The Dresden Dolls to Muse, the eclectic blog places
Allison Crowe's 'Live at Wood Hall' in the number 8 position, commenting: 'Oh that voice! Still gives me chills. I've posted about
Allison Crowe so many times over the years that I consider her Muruch's musical mascot. As I said in my 2007 review'there's really no way to convey through mere words how much the music on
Allison Crowe's Live At Wood Hall moves me'. Forget Susan Boyle,
Allison sang the definitive cover of 'I Dreamed a Dream'.'
https://www.muruch.com/2009/12/muruchs-best-of-the-decade-albums.html
It's been a year in which Crowe elevated her artistry beyond levels consistently seen in rock music for decades. A decade of international touring and online presence combined with inventive and inspired writing and recording and peerless live shows has translated into making the bi-coastal Canadian one of the world's most popular, successful, and truly, independent musicians.
Crowe's achievement could only be reached free of the status quo, side-stepping the mainstreaming rackets of, both, corporate record labels and institutionalized funding agencies. It's a revolution, not just in her home country, but, on a global scale.
A review from the latest concert on her 'Tidings' tour, which wraps this weekend in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, exemplifies peoples' response to Allison Crowe's singular nature as one of the most moving singer-songwriters and interpreters of any generation.
Sandy McLean, band leader of the Nanaimo Blues All Stars, (and President of the Old City Quarter Association), wrote of Crowe's December '09 concert in that city: 'I have seen and met, hordes of great performers over the years, from Clapton, Jeff Beck, Hendrix, Bonnie Raitt, Jennifer Warnes, Sara, Little Feat, to Grappelli, Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, etc, etc, etc, and I honestly believe that (Allison Crowe is) in the same league.' McLean sums up the feeling of many, saying: 'I really felt that I was in the presence of something great.'
Allison Crowe's seventh CD, 'Spiral', is due to be released in early 2010.
