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Another memorable night at the taste Canowindra

 

Liz Frencham has now twice appeared at taste. First in October 2007 with acclaimed live folk act Jigzag and most recently when touring to promote the album "Love thongs" (on Saturday February 9th 2008) which is a collaboration with songwriter Fred Smith. 

It was a truly wonderful show and we all understood why these two performers get such a wonderful Press.

Quotes:

“This is a CD of Fred Smith’s songs, sung mostly by Liz Frencham. Smith has found an ideal outlet for his songwriting, for this collection of songs, even writing from a woman’s perspective.

Frencham is a superb singer as well as a solid & melodic bass player. She has a rich distinctive voice that carries as much emotion as the song requires.

The CD firmly establishes Smith in the top rank of songwriters. He is a literate, inventive lyricist, who cleverly skates around clichés while writing about the obvious. He also has an ear for a melodic hook and I’ve been humming the title song for the past couple of weeks.” Graham Mc Donald, Canberra Times, 15th Sept 2003

“Not Just bonza, double bonza, 10 out of 10 with a koala stamp….go and see Frencham Smith or I’ll slash your tyres.” Philip Adams, Late Night Live, Radio National

“Smith, from Canberra, is the sardonic & laconic side of the equation: Frencham, from Sydney, is the sensuous, jazz-inflected other side…The pair spark off each other and imbue the songs with an enthusiasm that bubbles along on the surface of the melodies” Warwick McFadyen, the Age

FRENCHAM SMITH - "Love thongs"

This album, the amusingly titled “lovethongs” (to be said with just a hint of a lisp) is about as good as contemporary singer/songwriter folk music gets in Australia. Smith is a superb songwriter with a wry sense of humour and a wonderful eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life (the delightful light and simple “Have You Got A Heart” is a tour de force about that eternal subject of all musicians ­ love on the road) and Frencham has a voice with all the appeal, emotional honesty and clarity of someone like Shawn Colvin or Mary Chapin Carpenter. Yes, really, she is that good. The power of the album lies in Smith's ability to write genuinely catchy melodies and lyrics which, like those of Loudon Wainwright III, are characterised by simple, self-deprecatory wit. There is no other folk duo in Australia which even comes close to this magical combination.”

Bruce Elder

Sydney Morning Herald – Spectrum Features Section, 17th Nov 2007

 

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