she has the sass to match the sweet...
author: Mike Davies, NetRhythms UK
Being confronted with a blurb that describes her as "the conscious person's Renaissance Singer/Songwriter. A strong & sensitive Artist tuned into living peacefully in today's uncertain world", immediately prompts me to expect some sort of New Age dippiness.
Thankfully, the soft shuffling opening title track quickly dispels such fears, revealing the Boston born, Switzerland based Wimmer to be more in tune with the Americana of Lucinda Williams with a warm, relaxed, slightly twang-smeared huskiness that’s drawn comparisons to Chrissie Hynde.
It’s a winning introduction and she proceeds to cement our new relationship over the course of the following nine cuts, from the equally easy rolling Ten-Four through a ska-country bouncing Lover From Last Summer, a bluegrass streaked Dreams Bring Me Down and the fragile folk balladeering My Name Is Love to closing bar room guitar slinging Nashville rocker Self-Righteous Son Of A Bitch where she shows she has the sass to match the sweet.
Topped off with a dreamy, piano waltzing cover of Neil Young’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart, it deserves to win her wider attention and build on the positive reviews for her Live Within Live Without 2004 debut. Released in Europe at the end of last year, two tracks found their way on to the end of year Top Ten of Glasgow based Radio Six International. I’d be surprised if at least one didn’t figure on the Radio 2 list in nine months time!
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Incredible Songs
author: Swa (Francois) - Rootsville.be, Belgium
"Beth Wimmer embraces Americana with alt. country, rock and folk...The result may be called astonishing. Wimmer with the title track immediately indicates a very clear business card: '..with a miracle like me...brave and crazy things I do...I'll bring magic to your world, I'm a miracle girl.' Superb song! An honest voice. Miracle Girl is full of heart and soul and incredible songs."
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Smart Catchy Indie Pop
author: Peter Barker
I've known Beth for a very long time. I think she may have done her very first recording with me? I've long been an admirer of her smoky alto which is front and center on the wonderful "Miracle Girl". It's her songwriting though, that shines through. The tongue in cheek "Lover from Last Summer" and "Self Righteous Son of a Bitch" are my two favorites. I love it when a writer says things in a way that they've never been said before. That's a hallmark of good writing for me.
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Miracle Girl
author: Julian Moss
Beth’s done it again! What an eclectic range and style she has. I sang along to ‘Miracle Girl, tapped my fingers on the steering wheel to the road song ‘Ten-Four’, thought about our boys in Iraq when listening to ‘I couldn’t do it” and laughed my ass off to ‘Self Righteous Son of a Bitch’. Apart from poignant lyrics and memorable melodies the production quality of the music is superb. It’s another winner from Wimmer!
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