Location:
USA, CA

Category:
Folk

Try if you like:
Anne Murray, Karen Carpenter, Linda Ronstadt, Lucinda Williams

Most genres have an open door policy, even if you suck, if its creative, it will probably be listened to.  Though some may argue with me, I'm almost certain Country and associating genre have a different bar set. Let's find out if Alexandra Celano meets the bar on I'm Overcome.

While I personally find the Orange County California singer songwriter to have taste. It's in a sound I can't quite grasp onto, too constant of a mellow mood.  Don't get me wrong, she mixes the songs tempo from time to time, for instance on "Let The River Flow".  A backbone is created with percussion to begin, the rhythms are quicker and more profound.  

A bit like Billy Joel meets Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries), of course, this like many of the songs shows a strong commitment lyrically to her christianity. "You're Good For Me" is another track that steps up the beat, more like a Adult Contemporary radio rock song. The title track has the most banded spirit, with various vocalists used to build a 3D sound.

  More Country and Folk than anything, Celano has a confidence in her voice that can't be mistaken. Slower recordings like "You", and "Grandpa" are more for boasting of emotion.

 

 While I dislike comparing these two, cause Celano has quite obviously been singing longer than (Carrie) Underwood, something about "My Father's Hand's" reminds me of an Underwood song or two.  Almost like a production key, that slow build and long soaring vocal explosion on soft instrumentation.  Not sure how else to explain it, but the questions is...does Celano meet that bar Country or Folk may set in front of her?  Absolutely...