Tracy Conover made a few waves over the past couple of years with her CD, Live At The Cactus Moon. A striking mix of rock, blues, and R&B, one came away from that experience hungry for more of her powerful guitar and soul-heavy vocals. Conover delivers more of the same on her latest release, Retrospective 1991-2006 (Guardian Wolf Music), a collection of sides the performer has recorded over the past fifteen years.
Conover started playing guitar in her mid-teens, but embraced the blues while studying Voice, Jazz, and Classical Guitar at North Texas State University in Denton, TX. She absorbed the music of artists like Freddie King (whose “Goin’ Down” was a highlight of her live CD), T-Bone Walker, Magic Sam, B.B. King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Albert Collins. She moved to Austin in 1991, starting her own band and playing almost nightly. Later, she played with and toured with Earl King, Albert Collins, and opened for a diverse group of musicians, including Dick Dale, Buddy Guy, Charlie Daniels, the Marshall Tucker Band, and B. B. King.
Retrospective features Conover in a lot of different settings, featuring fifteen tracks with some stellar musicians pitching in. Among them are former Double Trouble rhythm section Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon, Mark “Kaz” Kazanoff, Barry “Frosty” Smith (former drummer for Sly & the Family Stone and Parliament), Larry Fulcher (bassist for Taj Mahal), James Polk (former James Brown piano man), Tommy Taylor (drummer for Eric Johnson), Riley Osborne, and Chris Duarte.
Not that Conover needs a lot of help. She is more than capable of holding your attention with her guitar pyrotechnics on tracks like the hectic opener, “Ironhorse,” or the slow burners, “Escape” and “Ladykiller,” or the rock & roller “Bye Bye Baby.” However, there are a handful of R&B-based tracks, like “Help Me Through The Day,” “There For Me,” “Tell Me,” and “Carelessly” where Conover’s vocal gifts are front and center. As skilled as she is on the guitar, her singing lifts her above the competition. She’s as comfortable tackling a bluesy number like “My Big Rocker” as she is a tender ballad like “I Wanna Be An Angel.”
At home singing and playing the blues, R&B, or rock, Tracy Conover shows with Retrospective 1991-2006 that she’s worthy of more attention. This CD can be found at CDBaby.com
Graham Clarke ~ Blues Bytes, February 2007
Stopping by to wish you a fantastic week!!! Hope all is going great with you!!! Check out my newest single Whipping Post on Texas radio NOW!!! I also hope to see you out at Armadillo Palace Wednesday November 11th @ 12:00pm for my interview and acoustic performance with 740 KTRH's Michael Berry (Texas Music Show) See you there!!! Love, ~Susan Hickman www.susanhickman.com www.reverbnation.com/susanhickman www.twitter.com/susanhickman
Hey Girl, I was just randomly surfing youtube and saw your stuff on there. Great! Hope your voice ailment is getting better, you need to be moving forward! Love ya, Jon
We are getting geared up for the 6th St Smokeout, and it's now less than 3 weeks away!
We'll have plenty of pizza, from the Mellow Mushroom, to take care of your munchies, and we'll also have a psychedellic multimedia light show for your viewing pleasure!!
Also, if you have just a couple minutes to spare, go by Do512 and vote "I Like" on the event page there; it'll keep the Smokeout near the top of the list of events for that day, and the "Higher" we are on the list the better!!!! The Do512 event page is here: http://do512.com/event/2009/10/17/texas-normls-4th-annual-6th-street-smokeout
Just making the rounds to all of For Love & Stacie's friends here on MySpace letting you know that the full movie is now online in its entirety for free. Hope you love it and really hope you'll help us out by spreading it around if you do! Thanks so much!
Thank you Tracy for being a friend, I must say I am truly impressed with you ,one, you are a very beautiful woman,Two you rock!,and three on the guitar you rip! four you play the sweetest
Blues!, which I love so Lots of Love to you! Bob Carlon/The Cobras Bluesrockin Band
Tracy, thanks for the Add. I saw you at the Big Easy a while back. Missed your Sept 5th show cause I was out of town. Still mad at myself for missing it! I can't wait for your new CD. I bought the other two (MP3) off of CD Baby and love them. Take Care, Ty Seale
HELLO WORLD! HAPPY SEPTEMBER! In America, it is obvious our National Media WILL NOT report on ALL the news we need to make informed decisions. The slogan "All the News that's Fit to Print" actually is meant to read 'all the news WE decide we want to print'. The MEDIA has earned our distrust & disgust. Like it or not, the Internet has now become our source for information. Not the news that's fit to print, but EVERYTHING. 'We the People' can discern in our own minds what the Truth is or is not, by seeing, reading & verifying ALL the available data. The Media has only itself to blame for this. In America, TeleJournalistas like Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs (sorry Glenn & Lou), Greta, Rachel, Larry, et al (in fact virtually every one of them) have poisoned the industry by spinning the news to fit their own personal agendas, instead of covering all the facts & evidence. The local news reporters are mere puppets mouthing only what they are told to say. Yes, they do give us some of the picture, but PURPOSELY do not report it all. 9/11 is a perfect example of this. The most insidious crime in our nations history, and THEY REMAIN SILENT ABOUT IT. Also, "President" Obama's credentials are SUSPECT, and they refuse to investigate/report. For this the National Media must be held accountable in the Trials to come. There is a Revolution afoot in America today, a Positive & Peaceful Revolution, and We the People, the Rightful Masters of our own Destiny, will not be fooled any longer. Fool Me Once, Shame on You, Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me. Please Join The World Truth Tour and Help Share the TRUTH!
Texas NORML's 4th Annual 6th Street Smokeout is coming up fast! Saturday, October 17th, at Momo's Club in Austin! You can get your tickets online by clicking "Tickets", and you know it's gonna be a sell-out!!
Bonjour Tracy Thanks for the friendly add really appreciate your so good sound and music Best wishes from France (Follow me on twitter.com/pascal95 ) Pascal
Graham Clarke ~ Blues Bytes, February 2007
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