Small Revolution

Small Revolution

Track Listings

1. Lucy

2. Use Me

3. Nowhere

4. Pale Reflection

5. Turn Me Away

6. Stumble

7. Last Resort

8. Glass Jar

9. Out of Me

10. Small Revolution

11. Drifted

Editorial Reviews
The Boston Globe, July 11, 2004
"Spunky!"

Product Description
Lindsay Mac creates full and rich alternative folk/jazz with the cello and funky, organic instrumentation. Her debut album, Small Revolution, features two-time Grammy-winning cellist, Eugene Friesen, Rounder Records' fiddler, Matt Glaser (The Wayfaring Strangers), and pianist Tim Ray (Bonnie Raitt, Lyle Lovett, Jane Siberry). The album also features turntable work by Emmy-winner, Stephen Webber (professor, Berklee College of Music), who was recently featured on the Today Show teaching Al Rocher how to scratch.

Small Revolution

Tracks:

Lucy
Use Me
Nowhere
Pale Reflection
Turn Me Away
Stumble
Last Resort
Glass Jar
Out of Me
Small Revolution
Drifted

Product Description

Lindsay Mac creates full and rich alternative folk/jazz with the cello and funky, organic instrumentation. Her debut album, Small Revolution, features two-time Grammy-winning cellist, Eugene Friesen, Rounder Records' fiddler, Matt Glaser (The Wayfaring Strangers), and pianist Tim Ray (Bonnie Raitt, Lyle Lovett, Jane Siberry). The album also features turntable work by Emmy-winner, Stephen Webber (professor, Berklee College of Music), who was recently featured on the Today Show teaching Al Rocher how to scratch.

Customer Reviews:

An exceptional first album.......2007-06-27

Lucy lives a mundane modern life, but she remembers her dreams of something better. Lindsay Mac tells her story in the opening track of "Small Revolution" -- and, I confess, I might have passed it by if it weren't for the gypsy-inflected cello that dips and soars through the music. Lindsay isn't just telling me about Lucy's dreams, she's showing them to me.

Lindsay is a dedicated singer-songwriter in a folk-pop vein and with various jazz and funk influences readily apparent. Her voice -- strong, sweet and cynical, and very expressive -- is not her only instrument, however; she adds spice to her arrangements with plucked and bowed cello, an unusual but decisive choice that makes her songs especially fresh. She is classically trained, but delightfully free of musical inhibitions.

With one exception, the songs here are originals, and Lindsay crafts stories and moods that are both entertaining and sophisticated. Lindsay follows "Lucy" with more songs that court a theme of personal freedom. "Use Me," written by Bill Withers, is a funky, liberated approach to sexual gratification, while "Nowhere" introduces us to the manager of a remote convenience store who wishes for bigger, better and finer things in life. "Glass Jar" is a confused plea for self-growth. On the title track, Lindsay uses a Peter Pan metaphor to take flight from the mundane.

There is romance here, too, and nowhere does Lindsay express it so well as she does on "Pale Reflection." The soft, bittersweet song describes a man whose happy memories of his late wife are sparked by the scent of dish soap -- "So he took a hand of the bubbles he would have placed upon her head/And turned down the lights and danced alone that night instead." Love is, of course, more awkward at its inception, and "Stumble" gives a light-hearted voice to the confusion that walks hand in hand with a sudden new attraction. "Turn Me Away," on the other hand, teeters on the edge of a painful breakup, while "Last Resort" takes a healthier, more emphatic course to the sound of light lounge jazz.

Bassist Jesse Williams leads the way with a strolling beat as Lindsay deconstructs her man with cynical detachment in "Out of Me" ("The way you sit in your chair/The way you think that you seem/The way you order your drink tonight now darling/You annoy the sh!t out of me"). The final song, "Drifted," combines the themes of freedom with unavoidable romance.

This is good stuff, addictive even, and it reveals the bright star of a new talent on the horizon. With a debut album this strong, I can only imagine how Lindsay's music will evolve by the next one. I'll be waiting eagerly to hear the results.

by Tom Knapp, Rambles.(n e t) editor

incredible CD.......2006-01-17

It's new, awesome and totally delightful.
She has incredible lyrics and sure can strum that cello!

she rocks live and on cd.......2005-09-03

I saw Lindsay Mac do a live solo show in San Francisco recently then bought the disc. If you like Ani DiFranco, Andrew Bird or Patricia Barber, you'd probably be rewarded to copy me and check her out both live and on cd. At first when I heard her do Bill Withers' "Use Me" I wanted her to slow it down and make it more jazzy the way Patty Barber changes "Ode To Billy Joe", but when I heard the cd version, which makes great use (a rare thing) of scratches and turn-tablism -- pomo, baby -- I took that back. Although classically trained at Interlochen, Dartmouth and Berklee, she stands and strums or picks her cello like its a guitar or mandolin!!!

Fresh and funky.......2005-07-30

This album, like summer night's breeze , brings me a total fresh feeling of music, story-telling and living...

Amazing Debut! .......2005-07-27

Lindsay Mac has a haunting voice and a funky sound, and her plucked cello adds an incredible dimension to the music. Its original, its got soul, its funky, its beautiful. No matter my mood, there are tracks on this album to match. Mac is able to pull off being technically sophisticated and highly original while appealing to a wide audience. This CD is my new favorite -what an album!

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Small Revolution

Manufacturer: Taiga Records/Goldenrod
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000UGG40E
Release Date: 2007-08-01