LA-based vocalist Kathleen Grace is known around town as one of the most expressive and versatile ladies around. Her albums and concerts have ranged from straight jazz to Nashville folk and poetic marvels. Here, she joins forces with fellow Angelino Larry Golding (who plays piano, pocket piano, organ and glockenspiel) along with a rotating mix and match team of David Piltch-Darek Oleszkiewicz/b and Gabe Witcher/violin for a rich melding of moods from her own pen and American standards.
Her own title track, with harpsichord like strums form Golding, is a tender piece akin to a Jane Austin novel, where with her own acoustic guitar and Witcher’s violin she takes you to the heartland on “Everywhere”. She’s vulnerable with Golding’s Spartan piano support on the rich “What’ll I Do” and she gets Norah Jones earthy with a gospel tinged piano with a dash of blues on a probing “John The Revelator”. A stark and slow read of “Love For Sale” is fit for a film noir, where she contrasts that feel with a folksy minstrel take of “I’ll Follow The Sun”. A rich scrapbook of intimate portraits.