Thea Gilmore

Thea Gilmore - Loftmusic - 2003 - Hungry Dog Records

How many people have heard of and listened to Cheryl Cole, Britney Spears, and Lady Gaga? How many people have heard of or listened to James McMurtry, Kyla Brox, or Thea Gilmore? The music business is a sick joke. Eric Ambleside on amazon.co.uk speaking about Thea’s great “Recorded Delivery” album said, "Another outstanding and horribly underrated and overlooked artist. Tragic in the face of all of the third-rate tat out there that sells in such vast quantities". Uncut magazine once hailed Thea as "the best British singer-songwriter of the last 10 years...and then some". “Loftmusic” is a short covers album. Some of the tracks are not so well known, but all the tracks are beautifully sung by Thea accompanied mainly by Jim Kirkpatrick on guitar. Thea sings an unusual but wonderful version of the Buzzcocks great “Ever Fallen In Love” as well as covers of CCR’s “Bad Moon Rising” and The Ramone’s “Don’t Come Close”. Thea has said that "Some people write me off as some waily folky woman. Other people think I'm rock. In terms of an image, if you want to be cold and corporate about it, it's hard to decide who my target market is. There isn't one. There is no box that I can be put in." “Loftmusic” is HR by A.O.O.F.C. Buy Thea's "Murphy's Heart" album and support great, uncommercial, contemporary folk rock and real music artists who put their music before money [All tracks @ 320 Kbps: File size = 71.7 Mb]

TRACKS / COMPOSERS

1 Ever Fallen In Love - Pete Shelley 3:11
2 Hide'n'Seekin' - Paul Westerberg 3:41
3 Bad Moon Rising - John Fogerty 3:06
4 Don't Come Close - DeeDee Ramone, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone 2:20
5 The Old Laughing Lady - Neil Young 4:17
6 Crazy Love - Van Morrison 2:58
7 Sitting In Limbo - Guillermo, Bright Plummer, Jimmy Cliff 3:50
8 Josef's Train - Nigel Stonier 3:17
9 Brother Can You Spare A Dime - E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, Gorney 2:36
10 When I'm Gone - Phil Ochs 3:40

BIO

Singer/songwriter Thea Gilmore was born to Irish parents in 1979. Luckily, her upbringing in the astute area of Oxford, England, allowed Gilmore to ignore the new wave reign of the 1980s and motivated her to seek out her parents' Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell albums. Later, she found comfort in the work of Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, and the Replacements, naturally absorbing the intelligence behind each artist's work. Gilmore began writing poetry and short stories to amuse herself amidst her conventional surroundings, but she needed something more tangible. She left home at age 16 to go work in a recording studio. Gilmore also founded her own Shameless Records and released her debut album, Burning Dorothy, in 1998. The Lipstick Conspiracies and the As If EP followed two years later, and Gilmore's star power started to buzz. In the new millennium, Gilmore inked a deal with Compass in the U.S. and finally graced American shores with the 2002 release of Rules for Jokers. Gilmore's third album, 2003's Avalanche, was a much more daring effort for her, and the single "Juliet" earned Gilmore her first Top 40 hit in the U.K. A year later, Gilmore released a collection of cover songs entitled Loft Music. This self-release effort featured Gilmore's renditions of songs by the Buzzcocks, Paul Westerberg, Jimmy Cliff, and the Ramones. Songs from the Gutter (2005) gathered career-spanning cuts not previously available as well as other hidden treasures from Gilmore's catalog of unreleased material. In August 2006, Gilmore issued the emotionally charged Harpo's Ghost, her first set of original material since Avalanche. Gilmore returned with the ultra-polished Liejacker to mixed reviews in 2008, and became a parent. In typical idiosyncratic fashion, she recorded the seasonal holiday collection Strange Communion, issuing it in 2009 and, in lieu of a new studio offering, released the half-acoustic/half-electric live set Recorded Delivery in 2010. In 2011 Gilmore returned to recording with partner and co-producer Nigel Stonier and co-producer/engineer Mike Cave for her 11th studio offering, Murphy's Heart, recorded both in Liverpool and in Ventura, CA. The cast of 13 musicians for these sessions was her largest to date. © MacKenzie Wilson © 2012 Rovi Corp | All Rights Reserved http://www.allmusic.com/artist/thea-gilmore-mn0000491034