[TFDA] OT - Milagro Saints at Sadlack's in Raleigh Friday night (and other shows)
David Kaminski
kaminski.david at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 23:13:00 EDT 2009
Last fall I joined the established band "The Milagro Saints", playing
bass.We'll
be playing at Sadlack's in Raleigh on Friday April 24th at 7pm
No cover, good weather, great music. Come on out.
Check out the website and a few tracks of music at:
http://www.milagrosaints.com/home.html
We'll also be playing in Durham on May 2nd (Strawberry festival - early
afternoon show)
and May 15th at 7pm outside at Harry's Market in White Cross (just outside
of Carrboro)
Check out the reviews below.
Hope to see you at one of these shows in the triangle.
David Kaminski
This album is a grower
Phil Edwards - Americana U.K. <http://www.americana-uk.com/> (Jan 19, 2009)
There's some fine writing on this album (highlights being "A Million Times"
and "River of Love"
Matt Fancy - allgigs.co.uk (Jan 31, 2009)
Classic Americana-all the way
Christopher Nosnibor - Whiperin' n' Hollerin' Irish music review
site<http://whiperinandhollerin.com/> (Jan
19, 2009)
A Breakthrough Group
- Woody Guthrie Festival
Milagro Saints are a six-piece folk rock outfit from Raleigh, North
Carolina; their blend of sweet country folk put me straight away in mind of
Grateful Dead, The Byrds and Neil Young. Bright, contemporary and
'cultishly' commercial 'Warmsoulsunshine' is rich, warm, exciting and
extremely fulfilling.
Milagro Saints keep it cool and relaxed but manage to conjure up a real
blissful and exciting sound that seamlessly blends all the subtle nuances of
nu-country with all the graceful undercurrents of acoustic folk; theirs is a
masterful variety of the form, lovingly conceived, stunningly performed and
seriously contagious. Their respectful melding of acoustic and electric
sounds is quite brilliant and sublime vocal harmonisation adds real depth
and tenderness to the mix. There are eleven great Milagro Saints originals
here and one impressive cover of Van Morrison's 'And It Stoned Me' -
bountiful indeed!!
Milagro Saints also 'splice' in some really heavenly keyboard work that
lifts and decorates the underlying instrumentation. Mixing old with new,
traditional with contemporary, Milagro Saints have concocted a wonderfully
vibrant but somehow mellow and expressive sound; layering fiddle onto organ,
blending electric with acoustic guitars, carefully slotting in soaring lap
steel and crying slide guitars, harmonica, clarinet, didjeridoo and much
more, Milagro Saints fill the 'dynamics' pot to overflowing - but nothing
spills out, nothing is wasted and not one instrument is even faintly
superfluous to the requirements of the overall mix - totally spot-on!!
Milagro Saints' 'Warmsoulsunshine' is modern country folk music at its
absolute best; twelve brilliant tracks adding up to one mighty fine and very
impressive album - brilliantly conceived, stunningly crafted, faultless
execution, flawless production - altogether, a quite stunning album!!
Peter J. Brown - Toxic Pete, UK online review
site<http://www.toxicpete.co.uk/> (Dec
21, 2008)
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