Go on, let it catch YOU off your guard
author: C. Boylan
I also own Andrea's CD 'Swarm'; When The Bough Breaks is equally moving and intense, and [I thought] a little more political. There are moments that will catch you off guard and make you laugh - and moments that will damn near break your heart and overflow your tear ducts.
It's an excellent buy. As always, Andrea makes great use of volume, background music and compassion.
She's one of our [the world's] best performance poets, and I wish more people could make her acquaintance via her work.
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author: Michael
Gibson has such a strong voice and this carries the album. Her subjects always pull at your emotions in the way they should. Absolutely beautiful
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a living explosion of passion
author: aly
andrea's words break out of the dimensional limitations that most artists remain constricted within. actually, they explode out. When the Bough Breaks ignites a fire and soothes. politically charged--Andrea's poetry has pushed my imagination beyond its prior bounds of how words perform actions. power. beauty. frustration. anger. (and funny too). life.
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amazing, heartbreaking, soulsucking and true.
author: malloreigh
When The Bough Breaks broke my heart, sewed it back up again, made me feel every beat she spoke and became the solemn soundtrack to more than one afternoon. Andrea Gibson outdoes herself, punctuating rhythm with the kind of words that move mountains. I loved it and still do. "Photograph" is one of the most intense pieces I've ever heard. "Andrew" speaks to me on a level few poems or soungs ever have.
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