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"<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #333333">Vincent Van Gogh “</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #333333">loved life so bad, his paintings had twice the color other paintings had”. So sings Jonathan Richman (on <em>Rockin’ and Romance</em>). </span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #333333">And that tells you something about musician Allison Crowe.</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #333333">A modern lover of music, US-based blogger <em>Muruch</em> puts it like this: “</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">There's really no way to convey through mere words how much the music… moves me, or how I want other people to listen to and adore it as much as I do. Allison sings with such an intensity of emotion, it's easy to see why she's often quoted as saying ‘Why <em>music</em>? Why <em>breathing</em>?’... that kind of artistic passion seems extremely rare these days.”</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">"I love singing for people," says Allison Crowe. "It's a way to connect and share with others… Communication is crucial. Just being able to do what I do, to write and sing and perform, makes me feel not only alive, but incredibly lucky. Knowing at any moment everything could change, I don't take one second for granted."</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Born 25 years ago, on an island, in the harbour city of Nanaimo, British Columbia, today Crowe’s force reaches ’round the world.</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">"Allison Crowe has a voice to fall in love with," says <em>Record of the Day, </em>theUK’s essential music industry news service. "She is from Vancouver Island in Canada, descended from Irish and Manx stock. She's exactly the sort of artist who can make serious headway on her own label and that's just what she's doing."</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Eight years of connecting with her audience through concerts and touring led the singer-songwriter to Ani DiFranco and Loreena McKennitt as models for creating her own record label. Since 2003, Rubenesque Records Ltd. has released five Allison Crowe albums: <em>Lisa’s Song+ 6 Songs</em>; <em>Secrets</em>; <em>Tidings</em>, <em>Live at Wood Hall</em>; and <em>This Little Bird</em>. Each has earned great critical acclaim and found heart-felt support. A true grassroots success, all of Crowe’s CDs continue to grow in popular appeal - as her music travels globally via the internet and more traditional distribution channels & media.</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">“The first thing you notice about Allison Crowe is her voice. Rich and dark, it seems to come from a place most singers can only dream of accessing. Then there are the songs. Filled with raw passion and accompanied by Crowe’s eloquent piano playing,” observes journalist Clodagh O’Connell. When this phenomenon ‘from the islands’ initially reached the mainland, O’Connell puzzled over a defining echo</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">: “Elton John meets Edith Piaf?” </span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">These days</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #b2d1de">, </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Crowe is praised not only as a singularly exciting songwriter and live performer, but, also, as a song interpreter. Her freshly definitive takes on such 21<sup>st</sup> century standards as Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and Joni Mitchell’s “River” are applauded as </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">"truly transcendent". <em>Tidings</em>, an innovative mix of traditional carols and songs of joy, peace, and redemption from the secular songbook, is an emerging classic - “music for the season and all time”. </span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">As well as helping launch her second one-hour television special broadcast across Canada, upon its release, Crowe’s <em>Tidings </em>CD was one of only two albums awarded four stars by <em>The Toronto Sun</em> in its holiday CD roundup - the other being <em>The Christmas Collection</em>, an evergreen Frank Sinatra reissue.</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">“Her voice celebrates the music with a bluesy rock-gospel intensity; her controlled vibrato, silken rasp, and powerful projection rivet your attention. This is no casual background music… be prepared to be amazed,” says Hamline University Professor Of Law - and CD reviewer - Carol Swanson. “Every song radiates sincerity, creative flair, and emotional intensity."</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Of her just-released album, <em>This Little Bird</em>, (which landed on year end top-ten lists from the USA to Sweden), Bob Muller comments: “Allison really comes into her own on this CD - her wonderful songs, supported by her emotive vocals, strong and confident, navigates them with feeling and strength. I mean, it takes a lot of self-confidence to tackle Aretha (Franklin)'s version of 'I Never Loved a Man...' but Allison does and nails it just as good as the <em>Queen of Soul</em> herself. Her piano playing is equally exquisite." </span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Muller, the veteran keeper of song covers at JoniMitchell.com, (an archive now totaling 2228 wide-spread covers), sums up: “Treat yourself to one of the mightiest talents on the singer-songwriter scene today.”</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Forgoing standard studio enhancement, let alone the sonic trickery so commonplace, from Nanaimo, B.C. to Corner Brook, Newfoundland, (home-bases that span the breadth of Canada), Allison Crowe makes honest, often live, records that outpace a brace of acts produced by the status quo of, both, mainstream, and, indie, marketing. </span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Perhaps that’s only natural for music made with a genuine pulse. Eclectic, too. Allison Crowe is the only rock artist of this generation to share a stage with jazzer, and fellow-Nanaimo-ite, Diana Krall, have a Beatles cover join Dee Dee Ramone, Sylvain Sylvain and punk/alt performers on a Fab Four tribute, blow away Pearl Jammers in Seattle, pair Tori Amos, Counting Crows, Broadway tunes, and Celtic aires with original, melodic, songcraft and, joyously, sound like no one else.</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">“Allison has a special gift that is so very rare in musicians today. She is true to her mind, heart and spirit,” says </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Ross Hocker, long-time public broadcaster with NPR affiliate WGTE. Hocker, whose musical taste embraces Thelonious Monk, Bela Bartok and Charles Gounod, calls Allison Crowe's live performance "the most honest, heartfelt, and directly intimate concert in my entire life."</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">“In an entertainment world that increasingly genuflects at the altar of instant fame, Crowe seems an anomaly, building her career slowly and carefully," notes Adrian Chamberlain, of Canada’s <em>Times Colonist </em></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">newspaper.</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">"Soulful. Alive. Joyous. Grievous. Real, true, music is what I want to make," says Allison Crowe.</span></div>
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