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Peg Simone

The Deeper You Get

Peg Simone's unearthly blues
about 1 year ago

Reid Paley sent me this excellent, self-released album by Peg Simone, a Brooklyn singer/songwriter who plays with his drummer.Here's my review, up on PopMatters today:Peg Simone, The Deeper You Get (Self-released)There is no sound quite so unearthly as slide guitar, that wavery, shimmery between-the-notes tone elicited by moving an edge of something—bone, bottleneck, metal or store-bought slide.

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Peg Simone's unearthly blues
about 1 year ago

Reid Paley sent me this excellent, self-released album by Peg Simone, a Brooklyn singer/songwriter who plays with his drummer.Here's my review, up on PopMatters today:Peg Simone, The Deeper You Get (Self-released)There is no sound quite so unearthly as slide guitar, that wavery, shimmery between-the-notes tone elicited by moving an edge of something—bone, bottleneck, metal or store-bought slide.

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Peg Simone and her slide guitar
about 1 year ago

Reid Paley sent me this self-released album by NY-based singer/songwriter/guitarist Peg Simone...and I like it a lot. Ms. Simone plays a very blues-y slide guitar, sometimes to a rock beat, as on this opening cut, and sometimes in a delicate, melancholy way. She's good at both, and reminds me in some ways of the late, great Mr. Airplane Man and in others of Michael Dracula...though she sounds...

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