LORDE: SINGER/SONGWRITER

Just out this month (August 2013) Ella Yelich-O’Connor released her very first ‘EP’ THE LOVE CLUB . Yelich-O’Connor goes by the name of ‘Lorde’.

The 16 year old, (BD:11/7/1996) 12^th grader from New Zealand, is making a lot of noise with her voice, and her magical lyric. She has been writing music since she was 12-13 years old, and is seemingly accomplished and spot-on with her craft.

The Love Club is charting in her homeland of New Zealand, and Australia, and Lorde is the first women to top the Billboards Alternative Songs Chart since 1996 in the United States with her single release of ‘Royals’.

Watch For:  The release of her first studio album September 30,2013.

"PURE HEROINE"

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JIMMY BUFFETT: SINGER/SONGWRITER

Hello Parrotheads, it’s Jimmy Buffett time! Buffett released his 27^th studio album in July on  iTunes  8/20/2013, SONGS FROM ST. SOMEWHERE,  at age 66 he is still having fun, singing , writing, and coming soon to Broadway with “Big Fish”.

The album is mediocre, with a couple typical numbers from Buffett; ‘Something Bout’a Boat’ and the most popular ‘Too Drunk to Karaoke’, feat. Toby Keith.

The rest of the album didn’t ring any bells for me. I did like a slow track ‘Colour of the Sun’, and he does throw in some very clever titles as usual; ‘Einstein was a Surfer’, ‘Earls Dead-Cadillac For Sale’, ‘I’m No Russian’, but no other really catchy tracks with the tropical feel.

Buffett started out in the 1960 as a country singer, in 1971 he moved to Key West and began to establish the laid-back, easy going beach bum persona. He combines country, folk, and pop with coastal tropical, known as Gulf/Western, but this album leans more toward the country genre. It is low key, and slow, and feels different from having fun in the sun of previous albums.

If you’re a follower, you will probably be happy he put out another album after taking 4 years off since his last album release.

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