"Liz Frame is one of the most compelling, interesting, and emotive voices I've heard in a long, long time, with a solid and soulful personality to match. She's also a wonderful songwriter, just starting to hit her stride, and no one does her songs better than she does! Her band is the perfect complement and foil for her quirky, funky Americana in their own very original way; to me, she's a little bit country, a little bit rock 'n' roll, and a whole lot Americana. Add to that a voice that can sound uncannily like Grace Slick one moment, when interpreting "Somebody to Love," and like a rebel Lucinda Williams on some of Liz's own songs another minute, and like a classic female country vocalist in the next minute, and you begin to hear a few of the reasons why I feel she's someone who has to be heard!"
--MARIAN LEIGHTON-LEVY,
Rounder Records Founder
"Once in a while an album cuts right to your heart. Liz Frame and the Kickers' 'Sooner' is that record. Every track is a startling, well-honed gem filled with Liz's powerful, experience-rich vocals that sometimes suggest a cross between the passion of the Indigo Girls and the candor of Lucinda Williams. Above all, this is funky, flowing, electro-acoustic music with spirit and a positive world view, as in 'Win' (a story song about conquering demons) and clever romancers 'Come Back to Me' and 'God Doesn't Like His Women Left Alone.' Frame has immense talent and the musicianship from the Kickers is stellar, augmented by some all-star Boston studio aces such as guitarists Bobby Keyes, Duke Levine, and Kevin Barry. Count yourself lucky if you get to hear this."
-- STEVE MORSE, former staff music critic at the Boston Globe who has contributed to Billboard and Rolling Stone and now teaches an online course in Rock History at Berklee College of Music
Liz Frame wrote her first song at age nine, and has been performing her own brand of rootsy Americana music since her early teens. She spent her childhood listening to the artists her parents loved Jimmie Rogers, The Weavers, B.B. King, Elvis Presley to name just a few, absorbing their sounds and ultimately allowing them to influence her own. At fourteen she picked up the guitar and has been hooked on the process of making music ever since.
In 1980, after years of travel with her family that allowed Ms. Frame to see dozens of US states and several continents, she and her family finally settled outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Shortly thereafter, she began seriously pursuing a career in music, becoming an active member of the country music/rockabilly scene in the city during the eighties and nineties. Fronting her own band, she garnered serious interest from both major and independent record labels during this time, but ultimately decided against the rigors of the business to concentrate on family. Now that her daughter, a gifted working musician in her own right, is grown, she is once again free to pursue what she loves most making infectious, heart-felt and at times raucous music that appeals to everyone from eight to eighty!
While Ms. Frame delivers her songs with strong, distinctive vocals that fall somewhere between Dwight Yoakum's twang and k.d lang's soul, one can't listen to her music without also hearing the influences of people like Merle Haggard or Johnny Cash. She is backed live by her band, the Kickers, a group of talented friends whose raw, acoustic sound and sweet harmonies help to deliver Ms. Frame's material with distinction. They play regularly along the East coast to enthusiastic crowds and are fast becoming a favorite of the Americana scene. A prodigious writer, Ms. Frame has released her first full-length recording, "Sooner," a collection of ten original songs that feature playing by some of the cream of the crop session players, including Bobby Keyes, Duke Levine and Kevin Barry. She and the band went back into the studio in early 2014 to record their sophomore effort, "Justine," and are back out on the road this summer in support of that.
www.lizframeandthekickers.com
Live at The Parlor Room.
Live at the Maudslay Arts Center.
KICKIN OFF THE TOUR AT CAFE NINE, NEW HEAVEN CT—NOW ON OUR WAY-JULY 10TH 2013 TO NASHVILLE TN AND THEN ON BACK UP TO NEWBURYPORT MA SEE YA ON THE ROAD KIDS…
The Kickers play the Blue Ocean Music Hall! 10/27/12
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