Shout Like a Lady
© Copyright-Randi Russo
SPECIAL: 20% discount if you buy more than one copy of it today!
No items available in your wishlist
Randi Russo has ended up on the wrong side of the tracks…at least when it comes to her guitar-playing. Her fingers ride and glide the rails of strings of a right-handed guitar played upside-down and backwards. In other words, this southpaw is not just taking a righty guitar and switching the strings around (like the late, great Jimi Hendrix), but keeps the guitar as is and just flips it over, so that the bass strings are on the bottom. And all this happened long before Randi ever heard of Elizabeth Cotten (another upside-down lefty guitarist of the late 1940’s).
This inspired approach came about when Randi bought a $22 right-handed classical guitar on the street. Maybe it was teenage laziness or maybe it was a pure magnetism for thinking out of the box, but Randi didn’t change the intricate tie-end strings to make it into a traditional left-handed guitar. This soon became her foremost artistic muse, experimenting in an organic way while coming up with unique and interesting chor
Read more...
Please
log in to review the album.
Randi Russo's music is so varied in genre -- I love that!
author: Susan
One of my biggest pet peeves are artists with music that are just "one note" -- with many of the songs sounding so similar. I appreciate Randi Russo's music for not fitting into a mold. My favorite song off her latest is "Ceiling Fire" -- it's just one of those folky, mellow, feel good songs that picks up my spirits. My second favorite is "Where you wanna go". It's Beatlesque/retro-rockish! So different from everything else on the album. I love the title Shout Like A Lady. It's simple yet so poetic. Randi, thank you for your music and poetry!
Read more...