Dudley Saunders
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| Webpage: http://www.DudleySaunders.com |
| Location: West Hollywood, CA, USA |
| Description: Lyle Lovett-meets-Joni Mitchell-jazz with a Cat Power edge |
| Biography: Like k.d. lang and Laurie Anderson, singer/songwriter Dudley Saunders began his music career first as a critically-acclaimed performance artist - only to find the experimental folk music he wrote for his pieces take over. With his emotional tight-vibrato and effortless vocal range, Saunders voice is often compared to Chris Isaak and Jeff Buckley, and MuzikReviews recently declared it "one of the best voices on the alt-country scene."
His lyrics operate in the scene-painting mode of Leonard Cohen or Tom Waits, telling haunting tales of bohemian life, darkly detailed and sometimes hallucinatory. But it's Dudley's melodies that ultimately capture the audience. While his penchant for writing in alternate tunings frequently gets him compared to Joni Mitchell, he's just as likely to take on the straightforward simplicity of roots music, most recently on his popular song Truck Of The Rising Sun , which is featured on the Braun and Brains compilation, The Independents.
Currently, Saunders is mixing live dates with recording sessions for his next CD, The Emergency Lane, due out late 2006.
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How many Appalachian singers get featured in experimental-funk bands? Or on Indian-fusion rock tracks? Or avant-garde neo-pop records? Count one: Alt-country artist Dudley Saunders, who ends his six-year silence with his second solo CD THE BILLY WHITE ACRE SESSIONS+.
But the long-awaited follow-up to his GLAMA-nominated debut, RESTORE, only makes clear why so many divergent artists are drawn to work with him. Although grounded in deep country, Saunders songs regularly take unexpected leaps into adventurous melodies, a quality which led MUSIC CONNECTION to dub him the Joni Mitchell of the gay-music movement.
Couple this with lyrics so darkly poetic they rival Elliott Smith ( I am buried in the basement/like the locusts who all sleep inside your yard/and wake one day/and try to tell you who they are& ), and a haunting, Jeff Buckley-like voice that conveys an amazing sense of vulnerability and pain (IMPACT), and you have an artist hard to get out of your head.
The new EP was recorded and produced in collaboration with the award-winning indie composer and producer Billy White Acre ( Best Indie Album, LA Music Awards; First Place, Billboard Song Contest), and the result is a perfect fit of song to production: the hallucinatory family saga Locust veers into trip-folk territory, while the nightmarish Truck of the Rising Sun is pure Goth-Americana. Still, the collaboration bears its hookiest fruit with the unsettling yet strangely moving - anthem to survival, The Undoing (Everyday).
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