Artist: EmmaJane
Album:Some Dreams Never Die
Label:Self Released
Tracks: 15
Contact: www.myspace.com/emmajanemusic
One of the great things about being a musician now, provided you're not a technophobe, is the opportunities
that are open to you. You can write, produce, master, mix, design, press and burn your album without leaving the house and
by just using your computer. You don't have to risk ordering stock that can take you weeks or months to sell, you can hand
craft every disk, should you desire.
EmmaJane is part of the new breed of artists that plug in and produce and a good job
she makes of it to, it's an album that is both acomplished and entertaining.
It's not entirely a one woman show either. EmmaJane has the confidence in her own material to allow it to be heard
mixed in with the odd cover version. I'm talking proper covers as well. Songs that you've probably heard of by artists in
a similar position, The Dixie Chicks, Katie Melua, John Lennon, Eva Cassidy and Ray Charles to be precise. It means that EmmaJane's
own songs have the standard by which they are set right next to them and they stand up to that test very well.
"Some Dreams
Never Die" is an album title that speaks of hope and the songs themselves are generally up lifting and performed with a spirit
that gives them character and a personal touch. EmmaJane sounds like she believes in every note and every word she delivers.
It has passion, it has verve.
It's a singer and her guitar but it speaks volumes about both the singer and her belief in where she wants to be. EmmaJane
can both pound at her guitar and play with subtlety. It means that each song comes across in it's own space.
"Some Dreams Never Die" is an album that shows EmmaJane is not only an artist with talent, she's also an artist with
potential. Songs like "Guide Me Home" would sit happily in a lot of artists songbooks, performed by their originator gives
them that extra spark.
