Miss Quincy

Artist Information

Biography

MISS QUINCY'S GOT A SMOKIN' NEW ALBUM AND A HOT NEW BAND

"Like The Devil Does", Miss Quincy's second full length album is a moody collection of songs filled with dirty guitar licks, sweet gospel harmonies, swampy grooves, and stories of old time deal breakers. Miss Quincy and producer, Canadian roots & blues legend Tim Williams, set out to create an album with the gritty sound of tube amps, a tight rhythm section, and a band playing live-off-the-floor. Good musicians playing good music, it's the oldest trick in the book. A natural evolution from her debut album "Your Mama Don’t Like Me" (Folk/Traditional Recording of the Year, 2011 BC Indie Awards), this new record takes Miss Quincy's signature vocal prowess, her love affair with the electric guitar, and songwriting skills into new-found down and dirty territory. "Like The Devil Does" is both 4am at the whorehouse and the Sunday morning after.

This year also marks the debut of Miss Quincy’s smokin' new band The Showdown. Featuring upright bass and drums, these ladies are armed with attitude, killer musicianship, and are without a doubt the hottest all-girl rhythm section around. Miss Quincy doesn't fit the classic girl singer/songwriter mold and The Showdown isn't your average all-girl band. You won’t find them singing pretty pages out of their diaries, instead you’ll find them getting down and rocking out with raunchy electric roots & blues. Unsuspecting audience members may find themselves suddenly shaking it on the dance floor, shouting out inappropriate comments, and buying the ladies rounds of drinks. Miss Quincy & The Showdown have never played a boring show and never intend to.

Coming together from the far reaches of Canada, the band currently calls the road its home. Hitting the highway hard for 8 months of solid touring this year, The Showdown will be joining Miss Quincy for her 3rd tour of the UK and Europe as well as a cross Canada tour that will include many appearances on summer festival stages.

“A definite star for the future” - Ralph McLean, BBC Radio

Instrumentation

Miss Quincy - Vocals, Harmonica, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Shari Rae - Upright Bass, Harmony Vocals
Holly Magnus - Drums, Harmony Vocals

Discography

Like The Devil Does (April 10, 2012)
Your Mama Don't Like Me (June 2010)

Links

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Audio

• Love Me Like The Devil Does
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• Going Down
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• Dead Horse
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• Nobody With You
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Video

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Press

• #5 Folk/Roots/Blues Charts
  

  Charted #5 Canada wide Folk/Roots/Blues November 2010 issue

• BBC Radio - "A definite star for the future"
  

  “A definite star for the future” - Ralph McLean, BBC Radio Ulster

• CBC Radio 3 Track of the Day [+ Show ]
  

  "...it actually captures a vibe and a mood, a moment in time that could not be captured had the musi..."...it actually captures a vibe and a mood, a moment in time that could not be captured had the musicians not all been sitting in a room. I'm not sure if this song was recorded in the above way, but it sounds very "roomy". And I love it."
  
  - Craig Norris, CBC Radio 3
  

• 4 Stars [+ Show ]
  

  "Canadian Miss Quincy sounds like she was born in a frontier saloon, Your Mama Don’t Like Me, (Self ..."Canadian Miss Quincy sounds like she was born in a frontier saloon, Your Mama Don’t Like Me, (Self Released - 4 stars) an exotic blend of country, bluegrass fiddles, rockabilly and whiskey warmed by the fire of her mountain cabin where her oddly timeless-sounding album was recorded."
  
  - Q Magazine (UK)

• Miss Quincy - Your Mama Don't Like Me [+ Show ]
  

  "Feisty is really not a big enough word for the amount of sass she brings to her music" "...genuinel..."Feisty is really not a big enough word for the amount of sass she brings to her music" "...genuinely different" "...lyrics pointed and insightful" "...sounds remarkably like Patsy Cline".
  
  - Jeremy Searle Maverick Magazine (UK)

• Miss Quincy – Your Mama Don’t Like Me [+ Show ]
  

  "Miss Quincy is a big voice from a small town. She brings the Wild West to the big city. Whiskey dre..."Miss Quincy is a big voice from a small town. She brings the Wild West to the big city. Whiskey drenched banjo, brass rail tapping bass, saloon door swinging fiddle. There’s a timely song on this CD: Record Store. Serve up another shot of Miss Quincy."
  
  - BC Musician Magazine

• Great New Band with Calgary Roots [+ Show ]
  

  "What impressed me most was the quality of the original tunes, which made made up almost all of the ..."What impressed me most was the quality of the original tunes, which made made up almost all of the first set... It’s not often one hears a young group with catchy, well-constructed melodies, interesting and relevant lyrics, and a real stage presence. That’s Miss Quincy and the Ramblers...
  Miss Quincy ain’t just another pretty face with a guitar. Did I mention she can sing? Her voice is a welcome change from the over-produced, synthesized female drones filling commercial airwaves these days. It has character and bite, like a good cigar."
  -Markham Hislop

• "... Could easily slip into legend'" [+ Show ]
  

  Miss Quincy Album:Your Mama Don't Like Me Label:Self Released Website: http://www.missquincy.net/...Miss Quincy
  Album:Your Mama Don't Like Me
  Label:Self Released
  Website: http://www.missquincy.net/
  This is an album that could easily slip into legend, like "The Campfire Tapes". Singer/Songwriter retreats to a log cabin in British Columbia in a cold snap and writes classic old timey album playing music gathered around a log fire between bouts of whiskey consumption. That in a nutshell is the origin of "Your Mama Don't Like Me". Miss Quincy sounds like it was fun to record, there's foot tappin' and I swear you can hear the crack of a log in the fire on one track. It's got an edge to it accentuated by a slight drawl to the vocal. I didn't think albums like this got made anymore.

• Miss Quincy - Your Mama Don't Like Me [+ Show ]
  

  Here’s a thought. Or rather another thought as I have many thoughts. What if we moved Canada a bit c...Here’s a thought. Or rather another thought as I have many thoughts. What if we moved Canada a bit closer to the UK so that Miss Quincy could come visit more often? We could even get God involved – it would be a good time for a miracle - just so She could prove that She hasn’t abandoned this once glorious country.
  
  Now, I might possibly have had a small refreshment or two before this album offered itself up to me for judgement but, and this is a time for honesty, class is class. As hard as this is to believe, I’m no fan of roots/folk/Americana type musicians generally and that should have pretty much finished off Miss Quincy’s chances of getting anything other than a kicking from my ink filled rigger boots. Only she didn’t for she and the musicians involved have brought a big of magic to an increasingly dull genre. Even in conventionality (“Wild Mountain Flower”, for example), Miss Quincy evokes the clarity and affection of early Dolly Parton rather than the bastardised modern day genre known as Americana. With more than a nod to other pure musical influences (and perhaps Jason Webley while she is at it), Miss Quincy takes us on a dance around the gypsy campfire in “Reno’s Song” and on through the shadows with “Nobody With You”.
  
  Even the industrial strength grumpiness normally resident in my heart was overcome by the music to be found on this album. Miss Quincy has stamped her character all over it and I, for one, want to get to know her better. Time to get on the Internet thingy and see what else she has done…
  
  
  Available from CD Baby.
  
  
  Review by: Bluesbunny

• Your Mama Don't Like Me - Miss Quincy [+ Show ]
  

  "It’s almost an embarrassment on an Americana website to find that almost every excellent new act th..."It’s almost an embarrassment on an Americana website to find that almost every excellent new act that comes to one’s attention is actually Canadian, but that’s simply the way it is. The sassy Miss Quincy, hailing from the northern reaches of British Columbia, instantly joins those ranks with her self-released debut album."
  
  - Naomi Koppel, Backroads Music (UK)
  

• Miss Quincy - Your Mama Don't Like Me [+ Show ]
  

  "Miss Quincy has a wonderfully expressive voice and she can also turn her hand to acoustic guitar, b..."Miss Quincy has a wonderfully expressive voice and she can also turn her hand to acoustic guitar, banjo and harmonica." "...sassy, energetic and powerful voice." "...compelling listen from start to finish with great songwriting, resourceful singing and varied arrangements."
  
  - Michael Hingston, Country Music People (UK)

• Miss Quincy - Your Mama Don't Like Me [+ Show ]
  

  "Her blend of acoustic roots, blues, jazz and classic country has attitude to burn, her accompanying..."Her blend of acoustic roots, blues, jazz and classic country has attitude to burn, her accompanying musicians are effortlessly proficient, her lyrics pointed an insightful and the result is an album that, in an overcrowded market, can lay claim to being genuinely different… 'Record Store' is a delicate piece that shows off a voice with more range and subtlety than you might expect and 'Water and Whiskey' recalls the full, rich sorrow of Patsy Cline. A mighty fine set, then."
  
  - Jeremy Searle, Rock N' Reel (UK)
  

• Miss Quincy - Your Mama Don't Like Me [+ Show ]
  

  "Canadian roots songstress carries on her upbeat spirit that makes nods towards jazz, gypsy and melo..."Canadian roots songstress carries on her upbeat spirit that makes nods towards jazz, gypsy and melodrama in an intriguing mix of styles...arrangements that hark back to the hot dance clubs of the 20's and credit where credit is due, she pulls it off with considerable aplomb...the balance of vocals and music just right, the results are stunning...Without question, the talent is there..."
  
  - The Music Critic (UK)
  

• Album Review: Miss Quincy - Your Mama Don't Like Me (Self Release) [+ Show ]
  

  Recorded in a log cabin amidst below zero temperatures up in Northern British Columbia, Miss Quincy'...Recorded in a log cabin amidst below zero temperatures up in Northern British Columbia, Miss Quincy's debut solo album reaches this reviewer in similar conditions, albeit the comparatively kinder snowy terrain of a seasonal South Yorkshire. The warmth created in the studio, aided by liberal quantities of whiskey, has transferred well onto disc and proves to be just the tonic for these cold nights. Recalling the heyday of the great blues women of the 1930s, Quincy creates music from another era entirely, yet loses none of its contemporary edge.
  
  Stylistically fusing early blues with bluegrass, old timey and even Kletzmer, Miss Quincy and co deliver an album, seemingly uncluttered by over-arrangement or studio gadgetry. There's no unnecessary sugar coating to Miss Quincy's determinedly bluesy vocal set against a bluegrass backdrop, courtesy of a fine cast of A Grade Canadian musicians including, Craig Korth on guitar and banjo, Reno Finch on mandolin, Pete Mynett on upright bass and Josh Giesbrecht on violin, together with additional dobro, steel guitar and piano.
  
  The title song, Your Mama Don't Like Me, a jazz-infused bar room foot-tapper of an opener, shows precisely where the rest of the album is going with a whiskey-soaked vocal performance of a seasoned barfly. There's a sense of the vaudeville in some of the compositions; dramatic, almost theatrically so, each song infused with a gypsy spirit and a healthily carefree attitude.
  
  The nine songs and one instrumental collectively demonstrate Miss Quincy's approach to grassroots music, the album being the culmination of the years of playing festivals, bar rooms, street corners and house concerts on both sides of the Atlantic. The retro approach is maintained throughout whether borrowed from old time country such as the banjo-led Wild Mountain Flower or the bluesy barrelhouse of Dirty Boat. Water and Whiskey, featuring Lance Loree's dreamy steel guitar provides a little Hawaiian sunshine amidst the frost.
  
  Miss Quincy's most outstanding vocal performance on the album, is the heart wrenching Record Store, with its memorable metaphor of too many lovers being likened to a 'crowded record store', bringing with it a temporary moment of reflection amongst the foot-tappers.
  
  Closing the album, the well rounded coupling of Miss Quincy's harmonica and Pete Mynett's upright bass, prove to be all that's necessary to bring Memphis Minnie's Bad Luck Woman back to life, with a fitting tribute to an obvious influence.
  
  Allan Wilkinson
  Northern Sky

• Your Mama Don't Like Me - Miss Quincy Album Review [+ Show ]
  

  "Steering away from the major record labels has allowed Miss Quincy to deliver us the brilliant ''Yo..."Steering away from the major record labels has allowed Miss Quincy to deliver us the brilliant ''Your Mama Don't Like Me''. The album has a wonderfully crafted blues/country/folk feel, with a variety of instruments all backed up by Miss Quincy soulful voice."
  
  - Adam Hardy (UK)

• Miss Quincy - Your Mama Don't Like Me [+ Show ]
  

  "Miss Quincy is a raunchy and sassy young belter and she is probably right about Your Mama, but I h... "Miss Quincy is a raunchy and sassy young belter and she is probably right about Your Mama, but I have to say that she really works for me! I admit that the more I listen to this little joy the more I think of ladies like Maria Muldaur and Bonnie Raitt but mostly I just cue it up again and enjoy it all over again. What an unexpected delight."
  
  - Marco Gandolfi Music News (UK

• Miss Quincy 'Your Mama Don't Like Me' Self-Release [+ Show ]
  

  "This is an of-the-moment cold time take on old time music that could well make Miss Quincy a hip na..."This is an of-the-moment cold time take on old time music that could well make Miss Quincy a hip name to drop in the future. She has a strenuous, forceful voice that has character and carnivale clarity. The plaintive songs are rooted in strong woman blues, vaudeville vehemency and string band sanctity...sounds like it should have been played in an Alaskan mining camp in the 1890's or in a cabaret in Berlin in the 1930s."

• Miss Quincy - Your Mama Don't Like Me [+ Show ]
  

  "You don’t have to try to hard to get to like Miss Quincy even if she is brash, bold and seemingly c..."You don’t have to try to hard to get to like Miss Quincy even if she is brash, bold and seemingly constantly drinking. Perhaps she is the perfect person to take home to mama; or, at the very least, her latest album exhibiting exceptional roots music certainly is.
  
  - Slavko Bucifa (UK)

• Miss Quincy - Your Mama Don't Like Me
  

  "boasts a virtuoso vocal performance" - Rich Morris (UK)

• Miss Quincy “Your Mama Don’t Like Me” (2011) [+ Show ]
  

  "No doubt the “voice” is the star of the show for me but that’s not to take anything away from the s..."No doubt the “voice” is the star of the show for me but that’s not to take anything away from the songs themselves, clear and uncluttered arrangements provide the structure to a range of styles with a warm vintage feel"

• Miss Quincy [+ Show ]
  

  "Tipping her hip hat to earlier times and the rugged northern beauty that has been the backdrop of h..."Tipping her hip hat to earlier times and the rugged northern beauty that has been the backdrop of her life, [Miss Quincy’s] songs are beautifully crafted and she sings with an energy that’s at once fresh and fun and daring - a reflection perhaps of her pioneer family energy, of roaming the Yukon on horseback, living in BC’s oil rig territory, and working her family owned hunting lodge. It’s no surprise that her growing number of listeners are jumping on for the adventure. She’s the real deal and she’s good."
  
  - Bettyanne Hampton, Executive/Artisic director North Peace Cultural Centre, Co-founder Vancouver Island MusicFest

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  As one of the more popular house concert venues in the Toronto Ontario area you can imagine that I r...As one of the more popular house concert venues in the Toronto Ontario area you can imagine that I receive many CD’s through the transom to listen to. Lately I spent an afternoon (yes a whole afternoon after 3 times through) listening to “Your Mama Don’t Like Me” By British Columbia’s “Miss Quincy”. Miss Quincy’s songwriting is very strong, with some of the most unique phrasing I have ever heard. Musicians on this release are second to none. I highly recommend you give this CD a listen. If you are in the position to book talent I would strongly urge you to book Miss Quincy……"I plan to” - Don Howard, Caledon House Concerts
  

Setlist

Miss Quincy plays up to two hours of original music interspersed with appropriate covers and stories, all punctuated with her signature vocal prowess and character flair.

When she's performing with a full band be prepared to hear wailing vocals, angelic harmonies, fearless improvisation, and sets of rollicking tunes you can't help but shake your hips to.

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