Amy Speace: a totally original, powerful artist!
author: Rachael Sage
FABLE is gorgeous, richly produced and impressively performed, and Amy's voice is unlike anyone else's out there. Melodically and musically ambitious like Joni and lyrically adventurous like the Indigo Girls on topics of love, struggle and survival, Amy's music falls somewhere between folk and country and is as modern as it is classic. My favorite track is "Rosalie", an instantly memorable ballad that any woman will be able to relate to and in which Amy's voice reaches impossible but effortless heights with a beautiful, unique vibrato almost operatic in its power, but always controlled. The lushness of many of Amy's songs will put you into a trance and will stay with you beyond the record's end; what more could you ask from music than to create a mood so strongly? An honest, beautiful record from a human being with the same personal qualities. Congrats Amy!
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Folk-rock free spirit Speace moves from gutsy to vulnerable on the same breath.
author: The Spectator, Raleigh, North Carolina (jennifer Layton)
NYC folk-rock free spirit Speace moves from gutsy to vulnerable on the same breath. She explores every mood. Fable starts with the spunky, sexy "Restless" and soars from there. Her pure voice climbs to gorgeous heights in "Rosalie" and gets downright dark and sinister in "The Morning After the Ball". The standout is "Arizona 160" which breathes life into the open road under a starry sky. Her songs are openly brazen, yet sung so sweetly. Follow her where she goes.
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Amy's songs move beyond the traditional borders of acoustic music.
author: Esp Magazine, North Carolina (jaysen Buterin)
Twangy folk-rock-pop, inspired by Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson, Amy's songs move beyond the traditional borders of acoustic music...a pixie-version of early Tom Waits. The lyrics from songs such as "Rosalie" and "The Morning After the Ball" are sure to have you hitting the repeat button on your stereo again and again...[her] melifluous voice and razor sharp lyrical wit...[are] a welcome return with open arms to soulful, heartfelt and simplistically beautiful music.
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