Lucky
© Copyright-Jean Synodinos
(750532927329)
Record Label: Fortunate Records
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A fearless and exuberant performing songwriter, Jean Synodinos has a voice that's been hailed as a veritable force of nature. Dynamic and powerful, it's capable of changing from an insinuating whisper to a full-throated belt. Critics have called it "big-league," "blues smoky and rich," and "show-stopping."
Her debut solo studio CD, "Lucky," offers eleven tracks of groove, grit and grace, illustrating why Jean's been called, "... this sexy, soulful mix of Dusty Springfield and Joan Armatrading." "Lucky" features drop-dead performances by some of Austin, TX's finest players, including Earl Poole Ball (Johnny Cash), Chris Searles (The Flatlanders, Shawn Colvin), Charles Rieser (The Scabs, Ugly Americans), Glenn Kawamoto (Tish Hinojosa), The Grooveline Horns, Ephraim Owens... and more.
Jean's list of awards attests to her artistry as a songwriter. A winner of the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk competition and the KRCL Founder's Day Festival Songwriting Competition, Jean's songs juxtapose elements of pop, folk, blues and jazz to tell her stories of surviving--and thriving. Her solo guitar work is formidable, and Jean consistently wows audiences with her particular mix of humor and heartache, delivered with unapologetic commitment.
HERE'S HOW TO SAY JEAN'S LAST NAME:
sin-uh-DEE-nus. It's easy!
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author: Minor 7th Webzine
Austin-based singer-songwriter Jean Synodinos belts out the kind of bluesy vocal delivery that is paradoxically both bawdy and coy. There's just a hint-of-Texas mystery to her vibe that you can't quite define... is it down-home or come-hither? Synodinos' résumé of numerous songwriting awards attests to the spunk with which she's attacked her late-in-life career change, relying on the same personal tenacity which saw her successfully through the terror of a breast cancer diagnosis in 2002. The title to this CD, "Lucky", sums up the irony of Synodinos' leap of faith towards the fine music she was destined to make, made all the more possible by the liberating aftermath of a second chance. She's wisely surrounded herself on this CD with superb sidemen, including guitarists Charles Rieser and David Hamburger, and just the right mix of horns to perfectly complement her acoustic musical vision. The musical moods are primarily jazz and blues inflected, but run the gamut from footloose ("Running with Me"), intimate and intense ("I Want to Know You"), steamy (a cover of Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe") to humorously self-deprecating ("Big Wahoo"). Whoever is touched by a listen to Synodinos' music is sure to feel the luck.
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author: Margaret Moser, The Austin Chronicle
As fine a vocalist as she is a composer, Synodinos' Lucky is among the most overlooked albums of recent memory.
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Humor, grit and grace
author: Kerry Dexter, Dirty Linen
A writer of humor, grit and grace, Jean has a smoky mezzo well-suited to her elliptical storytelling lyrics.
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Jean is a woman to be reckoned with.
author: Genevieve Will, indiemusic.com
Few can genre-skate well, but perhaps that's because few have a voice as amazingly versatile as Jean Synodinos. Fresh but down-home dirty. Pure but worldly. Bottomless but downy-light. With that cannon in her pocket, Synodinos could sing any piece passable as music and cast it into greatness. Beyond doubt, Jean Synodinos is a woman to be reckoned with.
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