New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Mark Pucci Media) - Singer/songwriter Glenna Bell, whose new CD, Perfectly Legal: Songs of Sex, Love and Murder, will be released nationally on October 19, celebrates its release with a show at The Living Room in New York City on Sunday, November 21, at 7PM. The Living Room is located at 154 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10012. For more information on the club visit www.livingroomny.com.
Noted UK magazine, Maverick, says in its 4 � star review of the new CD: 'Glenna Bell's acoustic folk-country canon is oddly different, almost addictive.'
Accompanying Glenna at The Living Room will be all-star musicians Pat Wictor on acoustic guitar and acoustic lap-slide guitar, and Jeff Eyrich on upright bass. Wictor is a celebrated guitar master, who's worked on many recording sessions, as well as his own albums. Acclaimed producer/musician Jeff Eyrich has recorded and toured with Tim Buckley, John Cale, Bette Midler, Dave's True Story, and currently with Lipbone Redding. His production credits include work with T Bone Burnett, The Blasters and The Plimsouls.
Recorded in four 'acts' at studios on the East Coast, Austin and Houston, Perfectly Legal: Songs of Sex, Love and Murder unfolds as a music and theatrical journey through a series of stripped-down songs that document the seldom-told stories of a real woman living a real life at the turn of the twenty-first century. The themes are both contemporary and timeless, ranging from Bell's comical, foot-stomping, hand-clapping, beat-driven romp, 'The Cougar Anthem,' to the banjo-infused bluegrass breakdown, 'Big Kev,' to her tragic dirge, The Southern Gothic Wedding Waltz.'
In addition to her originals on the CD, Glenna Bell's cover songs include a first-person barrelhouse version of the American folk classic, 'Frankie and Johnny,' that takes Bell back to her roots in the deep east Texas woods of The Big Thicket, along with her stark vocal rendition of Sam Cooke's 1963 gospel hit, 'Lost and Lookin','on which she steps back in time to the a cappella church singing from her childhood in the 'Golden Triangle,' the tiny east Texas enclave that produced two of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century: Janis Joplin and George Jones. Bell's stone-cold country duet take on the Clint Eastwood movie theme song, 'Honky Tonk Man,' also offers something for those who love traditional country music. Throughout the album, the spare production technique, with Bell's vocals and guitar aided by guitar, banjo, keyboards, bass and percussion, accentuates her distinctive vocals and the songs' well-written lyrics.
A true Daughter of the Republic of Texas, Glenna Bell is a direct descendent of ancestors who fought for Texas independence. She grew up in the east Texas lumber towns of Pineland and Lumberton, where she rode in rodeos and lived the real country life before heading to Los Angeles to become a theater critic and eventually a playwright, who studied with the legendary Edward Albee at the University of Houston's exclusive Creative Writing Program.
Americana and Triple A Radio promotion for Perfectly Legal: Songs of Sex, Love and Murder is being handled by Al Moss Promotions and Brad Hunt of the WNS Group.
