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Tracy Spring

Bellingham, Washington, United States | SELF

Bellingham, Washington, United States | SELF
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"FAME Review: Tracy Spring: Looking Forward-Looking Back by Mark Horn"

FAME Review: Tracy Spring - Looking Forward - Looking Back (From www.acousticmusic.com - A review written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange by Mark Horn (mark.horn@monarda.biz). Used by permission.)


Looking Forward - Looking Back" the new release by Bellingham, WA, songwriter Tracy Spring sizzles with passion and is steamier than an August night in New Orleans. While the title cut is a reprise from her first album, it serves as the perfect anchor for this new effort; masterfully setting its tone and theme. Get Lucky With You is among the most clever and steamy songs I've heard in a long time.

Flame is a raw, poetic expression of love and the fear evoked by falling deeply in love. Tracy's powerful lyrics remind the listener why love is really why we exist. Trouble reminds me of the great lyric by Si Kahn, "It ain't what you're given, it's what you do with what you got."

In Long Time Gone, Tracy tells the story of Grace, one of those very special people whose life was a reflection of her name. May we all have the good fortune to know someone like Grace. The other great story song is Red Bull, a heart-wrenching tail of courage in the face of terror.

Songwriting is only half the story. Tracy Spring sports an astounding vocal range with rich tone and exquisite phrasing. The result is an album that is as musically persuasive as its lyrics are engaging. This is not pop music, so expect to listen several times before its richness is fully appreciated.

Production and engineering assistance are ably provided by long-time friend Janis Carper. An incredibly talented songwriter in her own right, Janis also brings solid backup vocals and a devastating slide guitar to the project.

Tracy Spring is such a powerful poet that listening to this album took my breath away. It has been far too long since we got a new collection of songs from this incredible talent. This is an album you will listen to time and again. Treat yourself to a lovely example of the songwriter's art.
- Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange


"FAME Review: Tracy Spring: Looking Forward-Looking Back by Mark Horn"

FAME Review: Tracy Spring - Looking Forward - Looking Back (From www.acousticmusic.com - A review written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange by Mark Horn (mark.horn@monarda.biz). Used by permission.)


Looking Forward - Looking Back" the new release by Bellingham, WA, songwriter Tracy Spring sizzles with passion and is steamier than an August night in New Orleans. While the title cut is a reprise from her first album, it serves as the perfect anchor for this new effort; masterfully setting its tone and theme. Get Lucky With You is among the most clever and steamy songs I've heard in a long time.

Flame is a raw, poetic expression of love and the fear evoked by falling deeply in love. Tracy's powerful lyrics remind the listener why love is really why we exist. Trouble reminds me of the great lyric by Si Kahn, "It ain't what you're given, it's what you do with what you got."

In Long Time Gone, Tracy tells the story of Grace, one of those very special people whose life was a reflection of her name. May we all have the good fortune to know someone like Grace. The other great story song is Red Bull, a heart-wrenching tail of courage in the face of terror.

Songwriting is only half the story. Tracy Spring sports an astounding vocal range with rich tone and exquisite phrasing. The result is an album that is as musically persuasive as its lyrics are engaging. This is not pop music, so expect to listen several times before its richness is fully appreciated.

Production and engineering assistance are ably provided by long-time friend Janis Carper. An incredibly talented songwriter in her own right, Janis also brings solid backup vocals and a devastating slide guitar to the project.

Tracy Spring is such a powerful poet that listening to this album took my breath away. It has been far too long since we got a new collection of songs from this incredible talent. This is an album you will listen to time and again. Treat yourself to a lovely example of the songwriter's art.
- Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange


Discography

Looking Forard-Looking Back 2010
More Than Our Share 2000
Life and Art 1995
Spring & Reitz: Live At Binary 1994

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www.TracySpring.com

Mark Horn from the Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange writes:

”Her vocal range and control will blow you away…add this to fine finger picking and slide guitar work and you get one of the most well rounded musicians around…"

and...

"Songwriter Tracy Spring sizzles with passion and is steamier than an August night in New Orleans. Songwriting is only half the story. Tracy sports an astounding vocal range with rich tone and exquisite phrasing.”

Tracy has won awards for her songwriting, most recently taking First Place in the 2010 and 2011 Tumbleweed Festival Songwriting Contests in Richland, Washington.

Born in Seattle on a spring afternoon, Tracy is a fourth generation Washingtonian and the youngest of three children authored by a freelance journalist and photojournalist. Her childhood was stretched on an adventurous palette emblazoned by her mother’s love of weaving words combined with her emotive touch for music and her father’s gift of storytelling through the lens of his camera.

Inspired by the writing and guitar work of James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and Shawn Colvin, songwriting became her canvas of choice. For over three decades, she has performed and toured in folk venues throughout North America and Australia, often combining her musical life with social justice work. Combining folk, blues, old R&B, and jazz influences she displays a style all her own. Her well crafted 3 minute novels, rich, compelling vocals and versatile guitar have won her multiple regional songwriting awards. To date, she has also written and co-produced 5 songs that became soundtracks for state employee videos used to promote domestic and international philanthropy.

In addition to an extensive list of solo credits, she has performed in an intricate harmony duo (“Spring and Reitz”), as rhythm guitarist and co-lead singer of an oldies and R&B band (“The Usual Suspects”), the front singer with a jazz band featuring the late guitarist Darwin Evans, and an acclaimed women’s trio (“Christel, Spring & Carper” aka “29 Toes”). One of the trio’s co-written songs (Of this World) ended up on Peter, Paul and Mary’s 2004 release, In These Times. She has also arranged a number of her pieces, such as her folk anthem “Walls Come Tumblin’ Down” and “A World of Difference (In Our Hands) for community choirs in the Northwest and beyond.

Tracy lives in Bellingham, Washington and is currently booking shows to promote her latest album, "Looking Forward-Looking Back" a collection of reflective songs ranging from expressive finger style ballads to rockin' bottleneck blues.

TRACY HAS SHARED THE STAGE WITH:

Doc Watson
Cris Williamson and Tret Fure
The Tannahill Weavers
Greg Brown
Eric Bogle
Linda Waterfall
Erin Corday
Linda Allen
Dana Lyons
and many others…

SOME VENUES WHERE TRACY HAS PLAYED:

Anacortes Arts Festival, WA
Bellingham Parks and Recreation summer series, WA
Benalla, VIC Australia
Chumstock, Winthrop, WA
Columbia River Folklife Festival, WA
Dalby, QLD Australia
Eshuca, VIC Australia
Eugene’s Dog, Maffra, VIC Australia
Glacier Bay Lodge, AK
Kerrville Folk Festival, TX
Lakewood Folklife Festival, WA
Mallacoota Arts Festival, NSW Australia
Multnomah Folklife Society, OR
Mulwala, New South Wales Australia
Nannup Festival, Perth, West Australia
Northwest Folklife Festival, WA
Philadelphia Music Conference, PA
Port Fairy Music Festival, NSW Australia.
Portland Civic Hall,NSW Australia
Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, WA (Instructor)
Robinvale, VIC Australia
Swan Hill, VIC Australia
The Egyptian Moore Theater, WA
The Roeder Home, WA
The Seasons, Yakima, WA
Three Rivers Folklife Society Concerts, WA
Tumbleweed Folklife Festival, WA
Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia
Wangaratta Grand Central Hotel, NSW
Westley Performing Arts Centre, Horsham, VIC Australia
World Expo 1986, Vancouver, Canada
Yakima Folklife Festival, WA l
Yakima Museum Folklife series, WA
Yakima Parks and Recreation summer series, WA

Tour schedule: visit http://www.sonicbids.com/2/EPK/?epk_id=220757 and click on the green bus button.
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Links:

www.tracyspring.com
www.myspace.com/songwriterTracySpring
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Mailing address:

Tracy Spring / P.O. Box 4230, Bellingham, WA 98227

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