Daphne Lee Martin

[MKHstudios]

If you are from CT you might know Daphne Lee Martin from her country band Raise The Rent - who won the 2012 CT music award for best country band.   About a month ago she released a solo album (not country & with new band) titled Moxie which worked its way onto my Sonos playlist and is now in the regular rotation.   I recently read on her website that they were touring out to SXSW.  

 

Want to see/support a cool new band?  Here's your chance.

 

March 2 : Emerge Fest @ Arch Street Tavern, Hartford CT

March 3 : Burren, Somerville MA

March 6 : Way Station, Brooklyn NY

March 7 : WKDU performance/interview

March 8 : Purple Fiddle, Thomas WV

March 9 : Jack of the Wood, Asheville NC (with Toy Soldiers)

March 10 : TBA Hunstville AL
March 11 : TBA New Orleans LA

March 12 : TBA Austin TX

March 13 : Rain on 4th, Austin TX

March 14 : Boneshakers, San Antonio TX (with Sami the Great & Summer Girlfriends)

March 15-16 : TBA Austin TX

March 17 : Buccaneer Lounge, Memphis, TN

March 23 : Cafe Nine, New Haven CT (with Mount Moriah & Blessed Feathers)

March 28 : Nectar's, Burlington, VT

March 29 : Luthier's Co-op, Easthampton MA

April 5 : Oasis Pub, New London CT (with Freddie T & the People)

April 6 : What Cheer, Providence RI

April 27 : Daffodil Festival, Meriden CT (with Mark Mulcahy)

 

a new video:

 

website:

http://www.daphneleemartin.com

 

[bböp]

Looks like both the album with Raise The Rent as well as the aforementioned Moxie can be found on Spotify as well, fwiw. Thanks for the info about her. She has a cool-sounding voice, and a pretty interesting, hard-to-peg sound. Would be interesting to see her (and presumably, her band) live. Too bad she doesn't appear to be coming close to Chicago in the near future, but I'll keep an eye out.

 

In a larger sense, it's definitely a reminder that there's good music being made in just about every little corner of this vast land of ours and that it's up to us to support it as much as possible. Especially when someone points out something worth checking out.

[MKHstudios]

A nice write up on NoDepression.com ...  http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/daphne-lee-martin-moxie-cd-review

 

 

Daphne Lee Martin
Moxie
(Telegraph Recording Co. )

An apt way to categorize Moxie, the new album from Daphne Lee Martin, would be to call it “steam punk pop,” for it is equally retro and modern and thoroughly out this world. Artfully produced by Bill Readey at Fuzzy Rainbow Production, with her band Raise The Rent, the ten song collection mixes a myriad of sounds organic and electrophonic, including strings, woodwinds, brass, mellotron, raw percussion and bracing electric guitar. All of this clever accompaniment lifts Martin’s loose vocal stylings and cheeky Tin Pan Alley songwriting to high theatrical settings. The waltzing “Whiskey and Sin,” finds Martin channeling Peggy Lee singing in some interstellar speakeasy backed by Jack White, where the fashion of bowler hats and bow ties are mixed with Go Go boots and mini-skirts. The cabaret melodrama “Molotov,” is a cinematic epic all on its own mixing swinging drums with moog and banjo to tell a bawdy lover’s lament. “Faithless Beauty,” is a wonderfully orchestrated Bossa Nova duet of tangled lovers trading barbs, while the infectious reggae groove and melodic hook of “Whispers,” is an album highlight that floats from a Jamaican dance hall all the way to New Orleans when the horns add the soaring St. Louis Blues coda. The chilling macabre of “Cheers, Darlin” would be a suitable soundtrack to the works of Anne Rice. If the SyFy channel ever decides to bring back Firefly, Joss Whedon may have found his new house band in Daphne Lee Martin and Raise The Rent as Moxie exemplifies strength and breadth of  there musical talents.