Album Notes

"Live on the Road" is the forth full-length release from Miss Tess. The tracks on the record were all recorded live with the Bon Ton Parade: Alec Spiegelman (sax & clarinet), Paul Dilley (upright bass), Gillian DeLear (drums), and special guest fiddle players Zack Ovington and Mark Evitts. The tracks were taken from Club Passim (Cambridge, MA), Eddie's Attic (Decatur, GA), Norm's River Roadhouse (Nashville, TN), and WDVX (Knoxville, TN).


Miss Tess is celebrating being named “Outstanding Folk Artist of the Year” at the December Boston Music Awards. The Folk part was a surprise but the award is much appreciated.

Named by the Boston Globe as a "Local on the Verge" for 2008, Miss Tess is a young, Boston-based performing songwriter. Aptly naming her style “Modern Vintage” , her music bridges eras and genres. True to the tradition, her vocals can soar or caress as she strums and picks her way through an array of styles, from ragtime, to blues; country, to swing. Tess writes songs with the folk sensibilities of a troubadour that engage roots-devotees and newcomers alike. A typical set conjures a cast of dreamers and lovers, down on their luck and charming their ways in and out of trouble, with familiar faces mingling in the crowd, courtesy of folks like Bessie Smith and Tom Waits—perpetual muses to her style.