Today’s NPR Fresh Air show features a review of a debut album by Margaret Glaspy, who grew up in Red Bluff, CA. I once was treated to a private concert with some friends at her mother’s house, where she sang country tunes and Great American Songbook standards, with a banjo accompanist who did a respectable imitation of Bela Fleck. The album, entirely self-produced, is more avant garde than what I heard back in her mother’s living room and may be an acquired taste for some, but the occasion still calls for hearty congratulations to a hometown girl who’s made good.
– Chuck Strom
