Lori B - Hurricane Child 

Lori B is a Bay area singer-songwriter with a range of complexity and depth in her songs. Many singer-songwriter's aim to create a "pop" tune in an acoustic guitar. Lori B shows that an acoustic can be used as one.

Hurricane Child is almost exclusively Lori. She does have minor accompaniments on a small portion of the songs, most notably Mark Growden's part on "Welcome to My Planet." Everything else on the CD is Lori, her guitar, and her songs that are snapshot stories. "Hurricane Child" is about a wild child's growth. "Romeo, Come Home" is a love song of a sailor's wife. "Welcome To My Planet" is a a waltz about the offensiveness of lust as viewed by aliens. The most daring piece on the CD is "To Be Or Not To Be" about a rape. These stories are described in such detail that one feels the breeze in the song. Lori B's soft-spoken voice adds to this effect.

Hurricane Child is the first CD by Lori B. All debut CDs should be as simple and complex as this.