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MP3 Lin McEwan - ROCK: Funk Rock
11 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Funk Rock, POP: with Live-band Production
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For the majority of Lin McEwan’s young life, people assumed she couldn’t sing because her unusually low voice didn’t allow her to tackle the standard soprano parts.
“My voice was so strange for my age,” she recalls, “that when I was in the eighth grade, I had to play Santa Claus because the boys’ voices hadn’t changed yet, and I was the only one who could do a convincing, ‘Ho, ho, ho.’”
It wasn’t until she was 16 that she stepped onto the stage of her Baltimore high school’s gala gospel concert to give her first ever solo performance, a rousing blues take of “Amazing Grace,” for which she received a thunderous three-minute standing ovation.
Since then, Lin’s repertoire and range have expanded significantly, as evidenced on her newly-released debut album. This self-titled LP features an eclectic collection of songs fusing rock, blues, pop, and funk. Tying it all together are Lin’s powerhouse, soul-tinged vocals, evoking the old-school sounds of Mavis Staples, Nina Simone, Tina Turner, and even Bonnie Raitt.
But where Lin is concerned, comparisons are largely moot.
“Lin’s voice is both beautiful and powerful,” says Jeanne Drewsen, of Artemis/V2 Records, “but its greatest strength is its singularity. You can be certain you’ve never heard anyone quite like Lin McEwan.”
Since graduating from Vanderbilt University, Lin has settled in New York, where she put together a talented group of instrumentalists who have backed the likes of Mike Stern and Gavin DeGraw. Since they began playing together last summer, Lin and her band have appeared at such landmark establishments as CBGB’s Gallery and the Bitter End, as well as the Rockwood Music Hall, the Cutting Room, Smokey’s, and Kenny’s Castaways. But she still considers Baltimore home and tries to take the band back as often as possible.
Lin is also a proud member of ASCAP and the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.
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