Amy Speace. Photo © 2013 Gar Ragland.
NewSong Music and the Hanesbrand Theatre were happy to present Amy Speace with Jeffrey Dean Foster on Saturday, January 19, 2013 as an ongoing part of the NewSong Emerging Artists Series.
After releasing her first set of songs independently (Fable, 2002), Speace’s luck changed when a chance encounter with Judy Collins’s manager changed her life. Judy Collins signed Amy to her own Wildflower Records label in 2006, releasing ‘Songs for Bright Street’ to critical acclaim. That record included a duet with The Jayhawks’ Gary Louris and spent months at the top of the Folk and Americana Roots charts. ‘The Killer In Me’ followed in 2009, with a rare duo appearance by Ian “Mott the Hoople” Hunter, who brought Amy to the UK for his 2009 Acoustic Tour. USA Today called Amy “a rising star”, NPR named the title track from Killer “Song of the Day,” writing: “her velvety, achy voice recalls an early Lucinda Williams.” In 2010, John Platt of NYC’s premiere AAA radio station WFUV named Amy’s song “The Weight of the World” #4 in his list of the “Best Folk Songs of the Decade,” a song that Judy Collins herself would record and call “one of the best political folk songs I’ve ever heard”. Appearances at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, the Philadelphia Folks Festival and Mountain Stage and shows supporting Nanci Griffith and Guy Clark followed.
Jeffrey Dean Foster (r) & John Pfiffner. Photo © 2013 Gar Ragland
In 2009, Amy shifted landscapes, moved south to Nashville, beginning the writing of her latest album ‘Land Like A Bird’ (Thirty Tigers, 2011). Produced by Neilson Hubbard, the record features guest vocals by Kim Richey and is already receiving the best reviews of Amy’s career. Bird had its UK release in July 2012, when Amy started touring with Alejandro Escovedo.
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