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July 29 2021 Had a great Interview with Steve Houk’s “Living on Music” web show<\/a>. But our home wifi is so bad on the farm that I stepped over to the local library to avail myself of a good connection! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Julia Kasdorf- Motel review<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Julia Kasdorf Motel <\/em>JuliaKasdorfMusic.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The independent, roots music business is a tough one. It can be pure and innocent, bound by good times, family, and friends. It can be tawdry, exploitive, and unfaithful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sort of like motels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Motels are the thing of childhood memories\u2014a respite (\u201cIt has a pool!\u201d) after a day of driving through an Oregon heatwave, a safe haven for youthful hijinks with family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Motels are meeting places for the illicit and forbidden, places where one can lose themselves for an hour, a weekend, or eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julia Kasdorf, a member of the Washington, D.C. Americana and roots community, released Motel <\/em>regionally a few years ago, and is firing it up for wider distribution this summer. A fine decision as the album is Powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Lucinda\u2019s focused fire, Mary Chapin\u2019s lyrical eloquence, and Eliza\u2019s poised presence, Kasdorf has crafted a set of memorable songs, eight originals, a pair from the Peter, Paul, & Mary oeuvre<\/a>, and an A.P. Carter classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the covers are more than enjoyable (especially \u201cLong Chain\u201d <\/a>and \u201cLover\u2019s Farewell,\u201d<\/a>) it is on her originals that Kasdorf clearly shines. She inhabits each song as if it were a living entity. \u201cMotel\u201d is a moving vignette of solitude,<\/a> and by the time she roared her way though \u201cCool Water,\u201d we were hitting \u2018replay\u2019 and starting all over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a songwriter, Kasdorf creates vivid pictures with her chosen lyrics, revealing her influences and history through the rhythms with which she populates her songs. A groovy bass line (Lynn Kasdorf, and last heard on Domenic Cicala\u2019s Come On Over: The Honky Tonk Duets<\/em><\/a>) makes \u201cThe Minute I\u2019m Gone\u201d pulse with bluesy longing, and the tempo just pulls us closer.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protest song we all need to hear\u2014and actually listen to\u2014is \u201cBlue Veil.\u201d Like several of these songs\u2014according to copyright dates\u2014this one goes back awhile, but the message remains the same: we\u2019ve screwed up our planet and we aren\u2019t in any hurry to make amends.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I fall down, I reach for you\u201d she sings in \u201cCool Water,\u201d a testament to faithful support and unwavering understanding: \u201cIt\u2019s just my way, but thank God for you.\u201d Again, Lynn Kasdorf shines, laying out all kinds of groovy, pleasing reso\/pedal steel noises.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Julia Kasdorf\u2019s voice is the last \u2018under-known\u2019 I get to promote, I can die satisfied\u2014give her a listen. My gosh. \u201cCold Saturday\u201d revisits significant memories without sentimentality,<\/a> while \u201cWalk Your Dog\u201d is a rock \u2018n\u2019 roll party just shy of three minutes. <\/a>She visits New Orleans with \u201cGirls Gotta Know\u201d<\/a> and \u201cThe Minute I\u2019m Gone,\u201d stretching from country-rooted folk to groove-infused slow burners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The independent roots music business hasn\u2019t gotten any easier since Motel <\/em>was first released. Julia Kasdorf\u2019s Motel <\/em>is a special album, one I suggest you investigate if you missed it the first time around: there is only one way to genuinely support roots musicians\u2014BUY their music!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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A review of my album MOTEL <\/strong>that makes total sense to me! “Smart songs written and delivered with a rocker’s heart, you can taste the dust from the back roads she takes you down here.” http:\/\/midwestrecord.com\/MWR1775.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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