Darcie Miner
Loneliness Anonymous
Pennsylvania Americana singer/songwriter delivers ballsy raw emotion in each performance. Heart-on-her-sleeve lyrics and wide open voice, this petite singer with Gibson in tow, brands her own version of romantic realism.
The new album, Loneliness Anonymous is a book of 10 short stories which will give you an insight into the life of the artist, Darcie Miner. The fun times, the depression, the hurt and sorrow. Enjoy the read
Twenty-five-year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist Darcie Miner has been playing in her hometown’s bars and coffee houses since she was 12, and Loneliness Anonymous is her first full-length LP following four EPs. If you’d like to get to know her better, check out her entertaining blog, Heaps Of Sunshine, at www.darcieminer.tumblr.com.
Darcie has covered two fan favorites from two very different popular male musicians: Ohio, by Neil Young (on the Cinnamon Girl Charity Album, mentioned in my previous post), and Come Pick Me up, originally by Ryan Adams, on 2007’s Dm
As is probably already obvious, I have a soft spot for singers with a flair for romantic realism (and yes, I realize how bizarre those two are together). Now, I haven’t gone through enough heartbreak myself to know from experience what they’re singing about, but that’s where the true gift comes in. It requires a great deal of skill and a certain heart-on-your-sleeve quality to sing about life’s beautiful disasters and inspire in others such vivid imagery as to help them imagine just what it must feel like, whether they themselves have ever felt it or not. As I’ve recently discovered, this is a talent Darcie Miner has in spades. Inspired by her cover of Ohio (mentioned as a standout track on the Neil Young Cover Album, Cinnamon Girl, in my previous post), I immediately went off in search of further songs by the unfamiliar artist. Imagine my surprise when I found she had previously covered another of my favorite songs to wonderful results, one originally written and sung by one of the few men included in my ‘romantic realist’ group of favorites. This song is Ryan Adam’s Come Pick Me Up. However, fantastic covers aside (a skill I commend her for btw, as making someone fall in love with one of their favorite songs all over again is no easy feat), I downloaded both of Darcie’s currently listed itune CD’s, and have no doubt they will be in circulation for a long time to come.
Standout Tracks: A Lot to Lose (from 2006’s The Fragile EP), Trainwreck In Pennsylvania, Come Pick Me Up (from 2007’s Dm)
Best Played: on those wonderfully dreary drives through a drizzling rain, to pump some life back into life
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