Corrina Steel | Adelaide Gigs
March 30th 2010 15:02
SAT MAY 1ST
The Wheatsheaf
39 George St, Thebarton
Ph: 08 8443 4546
Doors 8pm
$10 entry
SUN MAY 2ND
Semaphore Workers Club
93 Esplanade, Semaphore
Ph: 08 8449 9110
Doors at 5pm
$10 entry
What the critics have said
“Steel’s authorative voice still bears the influences of singers like Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris; deep vibrato shimmering with undeniable conviction.” – Rhythms Magazine
“Deep, smoky, musky blues fuse with Steel’s Australian country roots to deliver an album that has a depth and maturity that, at times, sounds beyond her years... Corrina’s A Fling with the King cast its bluesy spell and had me hooked.” – The Dwarf
“Steel has redrawn the boundaries on her third record, removing some of the obvious country styling and making a beeline for a different take on funky blues with fantastic results. Her slide playing is hot and her voice is as assured as ever; but there’s a sting in the tail, too.” - Music Australia Guide
“If you haven’t heard of Corrina Steel yet, where the heck have you been? A powerhouse of sound and some top quality drowning-in-it blues and alt-country twang (and I mean that in the most positive sense of the word), this is a professional who does her job with love and skill.”- Cherrie Magazine
“Steel owns this territory.”- Bernard Zuel, Sydney Morning Herald
“Always a fine singer, Steel has become a vocal stylist of distinction.”– The Age
“She could be the love child of Tim Buckley and Janis Joplin”- Forte Magazine
Corrina Steel - A Fling with the King
In her 10 year career as a country singer songwriter, Corrina Steel has emerged as a quiet achiever on the Australian musical scene.
Comparisons with Emmylou Harris and Bonnie Raitt alone should make you sit up and take notice, but when an artist is described by the Sydney Morning Herald as "arguably the most important left-field country music talent to emerge in this country since Kasey Chambers", and "…top notch, with a full, round and effortless voice" by The Age, there’s really no excuse for not getting a one-way ticket to ride the Corrina Steel train.
The woman that effortlessly tears up gospel, soul, country, swamp and blues has dropped her stunningly good third album, A Fling with the King.
While her previous 2 releases, Blues is a Good Woman Gone Bad and Wayward, waltzed it about with country-rock ballads and blues notes, A Fling with the King takes the bull firmly by the horns, and steers the musical trajectory off the well-trod country road and deep into the murky blue woods.
Steel has never been one to listen to Top 40 charts or study at any fancy musical institute. Instead, she has always gone straight to the source; her experiences as an uncertain lover, a devoted friend and a confidant are brought to life and amplified by a palette of sounds born of Mississippi Juke Joints, Honky Tonk bars and long solo road trips though the vacant Australian landscape.
During her travels to the birthplace of roots music, the deep south of America, Steel forged an education in blues and soul in its most organic, pure heartfelt form. Impromptu tin shed moonshine jams with pawn shop guitars provided the soundtrack to a life of generational poverty and racial prejudice.
She was taught slide guitar by Kenny Brown, RL Burnside’s slide guitarist for 26 years, an experience that left an indelible impression on her development as a musician.
Taking the reins as producer for the first time and recording with Adam Pringle on guitars and Angus Diggs on drums resulted in a pure, honest sounding ‘beer and porch’ album; a Sunday morning soundtrack with a driving Saturday night hangover.
A FLING WITH THE KING IS OUT NOW THRU MGM
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