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Laurie Lewis
Laurie is highly regarded as a singer (twice voted International Bluegrass
Music Association "Female Vocalist of the Year"; her album "Love
Chooses You" won the 1989-1990 "Country Album of the Year" designation
from the National Association of Independent Record Distributors), lyric interpreter
(her compelling reading of Kate Long's "Who Will Watch The Home Place"
led to the song being named IBMA "Song Of The Year" in 1994), duet
partner (she has recorded wonderful duet albums with fellow Good Ol' Person
Kathy Kallick and Grant Street bandmate Tom Rozum; that album, "The Oak
and the Laurel," was nominated for a Grammy as "Best Traditional Folk
Album" in 1996), instrumentalist (she is an award-winning fiddle player
and one of the best flat out breakdown fiddlers around and has lent her instrumental
talents to countless recordings by her peers, including a recent appearance
on Peter Rowan's Bluegrass Boy, on which both her fiddling and harmony singing
fit hand-in-glove with Peter's efforts). Almost incidentally, Laurie is also
known as one of the finest acoustic bassists on the West Coast, occasionally
taking time out from her busy schedule to nail down the rhythm on other artists'
recordings.
Laurie's instinctive feel for the lyric content of bluegrass, traditional country, and folk material is a major reason for her popularity among lovers of the traditional repertoire (for a demonstration of this particular talent, check out her impassioned vocal performance of "Teardrops Falling in the Snow", a song first made popular by the great Molly O'Day, on "The Oak and the Laurel" duet album with Tom Rozum). It is as an interpreter of her own memorable songs that Laurie most often touches the uninitiated, and it is as interpreter of her own songs that she continues to leave an indelible impression on the hearts and minds of festival audiences, concertgoers, album buyers, and music lovers in general throughout the traditional and acoustic music world. |
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