Shannon Curfman - Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions  (Arista Records) 1999   

by Alex Teitz

             The word "legend" does not go far enough to describe Shannon Curfman. Her guitar playing can be compared with anyone of the greats: Raitt, Vaughn, Clapton. Her lyrics are strong and passionate. Her style is contagious and electric and jumps right off the disc. She's thirteen now, wait 'til she gets older.

            Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions is filled with only the best. The songs include "Few and Far Between" about betrayal by a lover, "That's How It Feels" a cynical song about knowing it's love by the amount of hurt, and "Real Bad Feeling" about the good and bad of love. These songs are sung with vocal style that is soulful and passionate and forces your ears to hear every word.

            Curfman is joined Kevin Bowe (guitar and mandolin), Ricky Peterson (keyboard), and Dave Anania (drums and percussion). In addition numerous others fill the CD including Johnny Lang.

            Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions is an amazing first CD by Curfman. FEMMUSIC looks forward to years of Curfman's material to come. She is what the face of emerging music will be for well into the twenty-first century.

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