Singer adds Kittery venue to her Northeast tourKittery, Maine - On Friday, August 9, 2013, Jazz, Blues, Gospel and R&B singer Francine Reed will be performing with her band at The Dance Hall in Kittery, Maine. The evening kicks off at 8pm and will feature Reed's earthy vocals most familiar to fans from her many years touring with the Lyle Lovett Band.
Born into a poor but musical family, Reed emulated her gospel-singing father by first singing in church at the age of three. In the following years she continued to sing in church and also at charity events before moving on to club work. Her early listening was to R&B and soul, but her brother introduced her to jazz. As an adult, she moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where she sang in clubs at night but, following the breakdown of her marriage, she needed the security of a day job in order to raise her family. Nevertheless, during this period, she often appeared as a supporting act to visiting artists of the calibre and variety of Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson, Etta James and the Crusaders. In 1985, she teamed up with, the then unknown, Lyle Lovett with whom she later toured for 13 years as backing singer and occasional duettist, appearing on some of his platinum records. She has also appeared as backing singer on records by Delbert McClinton and Roy Orbison. In 1995, Reed moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she made an immediate impact in local blues clubs and came to the attention of record producers, which resulted in her first solo recordings. Some of her former leaders repaid her efforts on their behalves with Lovett singing on I Want You To Love Me and McClinton on Can’t Make It On My Own. The first of these albums reached number 7 on the Billboard blues chart.
Although Reed’s style is enjoyably eclectic, her averred profound feeling for the blues makes her work in this and related fields especially attractive. Owing in part to the international exposure brought about through her tours with Lovett, as the 90s ended Reed was beginning to attract wide attention on her own a powerful performer. The quality of her rich vocal sound and the intensity of her interpretation is such that, had she not been obliged to spend decades in relative obscurity, she might well have long ago become a major figure on the world stage.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 the day of at the door. Tickets cans be purchased at http://francinereed.brownpapertickets.com
For more information contact thedancehallkittery@gmail.com or 207.703.2083.
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