Dawn Humphrey
You Don't Have To Wait Until Heaven
© 2001 Dawn Humphrey (656613612125)
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Socially conscious and spiritual progressive roots music, combining rock, blues,country, world, and folk.
tracks
- 1 Little White World
- 2 Lie Awhile
- 3 Forest For The Trees
- 4 God's Life Choir
- 5 Free
- 6 Hippycrits
- 7 No Place Like Home
- 8 Coming Back Down On You
- 9 Perfect World
- 10 Appetite
- 11 You Don't Have To Wait Until Heaven
- 12 The Person My Dog Sees
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Combine big, bluesy, sometimes sweet vocals, deeply felt songwriting, and soild guitar work with action oriented social conscience, and you get a sense of the powerful music of Dawn Humphrey.
In 1996, while employed as a social worker, Dawn picked up a guitar, and began writing songs.
She first thought of songwriting as a means to express her personal and professional experiences, but soon realized that she had found her true life's calling, and left the world of social services to persue a career in music.
Wanting to use her music to create social change, Dawn has organized and performed at many successful benefit events in the Asheville, NC area. She has been performing for a few years at clubs, coffeehouses, parties, and festivals around the Southeast.
In the summer of 2002, Humphrey released her debut CD, "You Don't Have To Wait Until Heaven".
The songs on this disc reflect Dawn's sense of social justice,family ties, and enviromental concerns, and cover a wide stylistic range, including blues, rock, country, world beat, and folk.
Dawn currently spends her days raising her two year old son, and her evenings performing at public and private events with her acoustic Celtic-Blues trio, Sidhe. Sidhe vocalists are featured on the title track of Humphrey's CD. Their name is pronounced "She", and refers to fairies of Celtic folklore. The group performs original, traditional,spiritual, and popular music with guitar, assorted percussion, flutes and penny whistles, and dynamic vocal harmonies. Humphrey plans to release a Sidhe disc in the not too distant future.
Humphrey's CD has been well received, is selling well at shows, and has recently recieved much local airplay. Whether performing solo, with Sidhe, or with the quartet she occasionally forms for certain events, Humphrey puts in a passionate performance of fresh, deeply-felt songs.
"Soul is something that bleeds through all of Sidhe's songs, from their Irish folk tunes to their African chants to Humphrey's own socially conscious originals" -The Mountain Xpress, Asheville, NC
"Bluesy, soulful mountain folk, with a twinge of political unrest" -Drips Coffeehouse, Hickory, NC
Contact info.: Dawn Humphrey, bluvida@msn.com; 828-258-8432
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Definately talented! Want to hear more.
author: Julie CoxI can't wait to get it in the mail. Great website.
A wonderful, rich, eclectic CD!
author: Donna DavidsonMost singer songwriters write songs that all sound the same; Not so with Dawn Humphrey. This unique CD contains an eclectic mix of fantastic songs. It is one of the best debut releases I have heard in years!
Super Lyrics!
author: Tony & Judy FranklinGood Collection of songs with great musicianship! It sounds like a lot of hard work went into this album. Hope Mrs. Humphrey keeps up the good work. You find the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.