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Now Available!
HEIDI CLARE, Reeltime Traveler fiddler, has released her solo CD titled "I Declare"! |
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What you get here is MUSCLE, pure and simple, powerful and purposeful, seemingly
limitless and untiring. Heidi Clare plays like she's defining 'bearing down'. This is athletic
fiddling done by an athlete. To find fiddle chords and drone notes like these you'd have to listen
to John Carson, Ray Cline, or G.B. Grayson. There comes a time in modern convention when
even those with the strength, taste, and talent to muscle through a tune tend to lighten up for the
sake of melody, clarity, or finesse. But Heidi just refuses. Once she's in her "groove" (her word)
it would take an old-time southwest Ohio bluegrass bar fight to dislodge her. And those are as
gone as the fiddlers who defined the standards that Heidi Clare emulates."
Ron Thomason - Cotopaxi, Colorado - March, 2006 | |
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