Barbara Meyer
Folk Rock / Roots Music
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"love everybody"
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota
United States
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| Barbara Meyer: General Info
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| Member Since | 1/1/2008 | | Band Members | Barbara: She's been playing around the Twin Cities since 1994, performing jazz (with Drew Gordon, Lyndy Zabel, David Palmer, and others), reggae/world beat (with One World), rock, opera, musicals, and other various music styles. Her own writing takes on a folk rock flare but generates from a very unique place - check it out.
Stanley Kipper: He's the leader and Soul Man of New Primitives; find their myspace page for fabulous grooves!
Rich Mattson: Roots rockin' front man for Ol' Yeller, and now the Tisdales, you must also check them out on myspace!
Bill Hulett: So sweet we call him HoneyBee, Bill's a beautiful and steady bass man. | | Influences | Are you kidding me? Everyone and everything! Some that stand out, though, include Chadly, Joni Mitchell, Michael Franti, Billie Holiday, world crises and politics, Greg Brown, Emmylou Harris, Ani diFranco, Heart, my dogs, Led Zeppelin, Tom Petty, Betty, the music of the 60's and 70's in general, my family, sunshine, Bob Marley, rain, travel, sadness, God, Lucinda Williams, the Beatles, Eva Cassidy, Neil Young, Julie London, the music of my Friends... This is all intentionally randomized, since that's how inspiration works. I hope to never shut down on influences that come my way. | | Sounds Like | By Dwight Hobbes , TC Daily Planet
February 17, 2008...
Rockabilly balladeer Barbara Meyer weighs in with strong vocals and fine songwriting, and backs herself on tasty rhythm guitar. Her gig last fall at the Acadia Café was an energized set, so tight it could’ve been recorded as a live album to follow her debut disc Barbara Meyer.
A bit of background: Meyer, who has a Master’s in vocal performance and studied at the University of Iowa, signed on in 1999 with the Twin Cities’ seminal Afro-Cuban rockers One World. The band, as bands tend to do, broke up, giving way to the New Primitives with founder Stan Kipper inviting Meyer to sing on “Bring Me Down,” to this day a crowd-rousing favorite off the album New Primitives. Somewhere along the line, Barbara Meyer decided to go for hers, enlisting Kipper and Rich Mattson to help produce Barbara Meyer.
She threw down stone-cold serious at Acadia Café, backed by Kipper (timbales, backing vocals) and One World cohort, monster bass guitarist Bill Hulett. The set mostly was culled from Barbara Meyer, including “Does It Always Have To Be About You,” “Kick,” and “Louisiana Shuffle.” Each selection drew healthy applause along with a whole lot of hooting and hollering. Even so, the sultry gem “Watering The Dead” was a standout, featuring some of the prettiest cornpone since Roy Orbison. Meyer’s wizened delivery of sharp lyrics over compelling country-rock goes along these lines. “We went to Utah looking for some fun/ Took bikes and camping gear and headed for the sun/ Thought we were ready, but we hadn’t yet begun/ Watering our dead in Moab.” And then there was “Jeep,” a raucous delight bemoaning the death-by-fire of her beloved automobile.
Meyer sang and played like an angel. Her backup burned. You really had to be there for “Wisconsin,” when Meyer broke out, “Wildlife strapped to the back of a car as we drive past the Cheese Chalet/ These are some of the sights to see on the Wisconsin motorway/ Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby, and that’s what you get here/ Hearts on sleeves in every corner of the state and lots of cheese and beer.” The song’s chanted chorus goes, “Wisconsin, you got the Packers and the Dells/ Wisconsin is where the Heartland swells/ And everybody loves their neighbor so well.” The song’s a bluegrass-jug-band-spawned goodtime jam.
Dwight Hobbes is a writer based in the Twin Cities. He contributes regularly to the TC Daily Planet.
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| About Barbara Meyer |
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My musical nest is built of my experiences with One World (reggae/world beat), Drew and Lyndy and others (hot jazz), University of Iowa Opera Theatre (a solid base), Zingara (global music), and countless other incredible influences. I'm grateful for the love and musical assistance of more people than I can remember, but some that I CAN remember include my brave husband Chadly, Betty, Mom, Dad, Ange, Erin, Stan, Rich, Drew, HoneyBee, Lyndy, Albert Gammon, and Susan Beasley. Gratitude flows from me to you...
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