![]() ![]() So Bombara slowly started performing her own material, watering the seeds that would grow into her own flourishing career. I struggled with anxiety and talking into a microphone just froze me up.” Yet the songs were there. ![]() “I wasn’t comfortable being in the spotlight like that. “I never set out to be a lead singer,” she admits. But she never, ever sounds like the "typical" artist who claims these influences Bombara to zig where someone else might zag, making harder or gentler turns, brushing up against jazz or taking rock toward its fulfillment.”īombara spent years on the road in other bands before encouragement from peers led her to start writing and performing her own music. The Columbia Tribune notes, “Her songs live in the same world as greats like Petty and Dylan Gillian and Joni, and grow up like trees drawing nourishment from their roots. It’s not that it’s retro, really, but there is something of a different era about her music – it has an earnestness to it, an organic depth that feels natural and easy. It’s all there – the songwriting first and foremost with a voice that connects on a raw, emotional level alongside production led by Bombara’s undeniable musicality, retaining the intimacy of being wholly conceived by the artist herself. Beth Bombara's "It All Goes Up", is for this moment what Kathleen Edwards’ Back To Me was for the early 2000s. ![]()
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