WOOL&GRANT

Artist Information

Biography

Bev Grant grew up singing and playing in Portland, Oregon, where she began her performing career as a child in a band with her two sisters. After moving to New York City, she devoted herself to topical songwriting and social activism, notably in her band The Human Condition. Bev is featured on the Grammy-nominated Best of Broadside album and is the founder and director of the Brooklyn Women’s Chorus. Her song “We Were There” has become an anthem of women in the labor movement, and many other of her award-winning songs can be found on her numerous recordings.

The “semi-legendary” Ina May Wool has been playing, singing, and writing since she was a small child in Massachusetts, and since then, in Europe and all over the US, in jazz clubs, at folk festivals, in rock musicals, at house concerts, on boats and on the backs of trucks, at Lincoln Center and other concert halls, in blues bars, in folk clubs, and at Off Broadway theaters. Her two albums of original songs have won many awards (Moon Over 97th Street 1999 and Crack It Open 2004). Ina May is also a busy creative coach and guide in action-packed writing workshops for everyone from 8-year-olds to senior citizens.

What people say about WOOL&GRANT:

WOOL&GRANT is the collaboration of veteran singer/songwriters Bev Grant and Ina May Wool. Also featured is producer/instrumentalist Daniel A. Weiss. Together, Ina and Bev have a remarkable synergy. Their songs are sharp, funny, moving, always on target and the settings are musically gorgeous. Jon Gordon, Jon Gordon Music

Wool and Grant's new CD is an instant classic. Recalling Daniel Lanois' production of Willie Nelson's "Teatro", it is at once both present while recalling influences from the past, both timely and timeless in its treatment of issues as complex as fracking and strip mining, as well as beautiful stories of love and desire. The mix is alive with varied and interesting percussion, and never leaves the listener wanting. The two women's voices blend together seamlessly in the fine production by Daniel A. Weiss, featuring excellent guitar and steel work from Ann Klein, and a host of other New York folk luminaries. Wool and Grant are women who aren't afraid to tell it like it is - and expose their own vulnerabilities - with a delicacy and strength, a beautiful, polished grit. Jeremiah Birnbaum

Instrumentation

Bev Grant - Vocals and Guitar
Ina May Wool - Vocals, Guitar, mandolin

Discography

WOOL&GRANT - Singing Clear: Clean earth, air, water, 'round here composite CD with various artists
WOOL&GRANT - self titled CD scheduled for June 15, 2013 release

BEV GRANT CDs -
- We Were There! Songs of Women's Labor History*
- In Tune CD*
- The Power of Song (with the Brooklyn Women's Chorus)*
- Kulonyaka, Year of Dedication (with The Human
Condition)
- Working People Gonna Rise (with The Human Condition)
COMPILATION RECORDINGS INCLUDING BEV GRANT
- Grammy nominated "The Best of Broadside 1962-1988,
Anthems of the American Underground From the Pages
of Broadside Magazine," Smithsonian/Folkways - "Inez"

INA MAY WOOL CDs -
-Moon Over 97th Street (Bang Zoom 101)*
-Crack It Open (Bang Zoom 102)*

*Available on CDBaby

Official Website

http://www.woolgrant.com

Links

• Facebook
• Wool&Grant
• bevgrant2008

Audio

• Nothing On Me
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• Get the Frack Outta Here
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• Wild Women
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• Janis
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• Vakhegula Vakhegula (Go Granny Go)
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Lyrics

• Nothin' on Me
• Get the Frack Outta Here
• Wild Women
• Janis
• Vakhegula Vakhegula (Go Granny Go)

Video

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Press

• Wool & Grant offer stunning results in self-titled album [+ Show ]
  

  by David Malachowski Renowned singer-songwriters Ina May Wool and Bev Grant have joined together ...by David Malachowski
  
  Renowned singer-songwriters Ina May Wool and Bev Grant have joined together as a duo, with simply stunning results. Both singers live in New York City, but still, there are many ties to this area. They used bass genius Tony Levin and drum legend Jerry Marotta, as well as his Dreamland Studios. Notable New York City guitarist/keyboardist Daniel A. Weiss co-produced this with Wool & Grant and co-wrote some of the tunes.
  
  It starts off with the forceful “Nothing On Me,” as the two sing an inspiring ode to the freedom of burning bridges and having nothing to lose. “Black Ice” is simply jaw dropping; Levin weaves around Wool’s enticing voice, intricate guitar along with Weiss’ swirling organ. Its breathtakingly beautiful, but the midst of the beauty, she sings clever lines like, “and your generous heart / and your love of cake” or “with your black jeans on/and your very large head.” Who else would do that?
  
  
  
  
  The jazzy “I Remember Love” is a longing look back on romance through vintage glasses. With the down home “Last Man On The Mountain,” Grant takes on the voice of a wise older man versus the coal business. On a sadly similar theme (and one that will be close to the heart of many Hudson Valley residents) is “Get The Frack Outta Here,” as they sing about the man coming to town with his checkbook. Soon the hedonistic “Lonely One” has Wool wound up and swaying to an island rhythm.
  
  In the snappy “America,” Grant lets loose with a musical genealogy lesson that should be the new national anthem. Finally Wool & Grant turn up the heat with the spirited “Wild Women,” and you know, they are in the best sense of the phrase.
  
  Listening to Wool should be mandatory for aspiring singers who think vocal gymnastics are the point. No kids, it’s depth, emotion and conviction, and Grant can show them that that taking a stand still means something. Years ago artists would sing about injustice and, now they’re too scared to rock the boat, because their real goal is fame, not music. It’s obvious where Wool & Grant’s priorities are, their whole lives have been about music, and they live and die for it.
  
  Extremely well produced, played, written and sung, this gorgeous record proves not only you can get older and better, but brilliant.
  

• SUPERGROUPS [+ Show ]
  

  No, not The Avengers - they’re doing just fine without me, thank you. Last night, I joined the thron...No, not The Avengers - they’re doing just fine without me, thank you. Last night, I joined the throng at the local cineplex to be TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY! by the crashing and thrashing and Tony Stark wisecracks. I’m writing instead in praise of, and with a big salute to, three musical groups, each the aggregate of the skills and talents of solo artists who have joined forces to make something new and fresh and powerful. There is something really exciting about a group of performers who listen so well to each other, who create a blended sound that is genuinely greater than the sum of its parts - particularly when, as in these examples, the parts are pretty damn good on their own.
  
  Ina May Wool and Bev Grant carved out impressive solo careers on two coasts (Ina May in New England, Bev out West) and then in the Big Apple - each a smart interpreter of modern life, of memories and dreams, of the rough and tumble of campaigns won and lost, in love, in the political arena, in how we grow. Their singer-songwriter careers are each marked by success and acclaim, with honors and awards and recognition from peers and the public. They are very different creative artists with a shared passion for truth, clarity and urgency in their writing, and they have come together as WOOL&GRANT to form one of the freshest, most compelling new “supergroups” of the past few years. A WOOL&GRANT concert is a bracing, heady brew of laughs, joyous rhythms, open-hearted confessionals and rousing choruses. There’s really no other duo out there presenting this combination of comfort and combustion. Check them out at http://www.reverbnation.com/woolgrant and make it a point to go out to hear them sing. WOOL&GRANT

Setlist

Nothing on Me
Get the Frack Outta Here
Lonely One
Last Man on the Mountain
Janis
President of Women
A Few Old Memories
I Remember Love
Vakhegula Vakhegula (Go Granny Go)
Wild Women

Sets vary from 20 minutes to 60
Music ranges from acoustic folk/rock/blues to jazz ballads, from Latin flavored to African infuenced.

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