From:
Robin Merritt Publisher
ArtFRONT Artists' Presentations
(423) 756-4827
Performance on Saturday,
February 11th
At Barking Legs Theatre
Opening for “The Divine Maggees”
Aimee Wilson “Timbers
Fall”
In attempting to find locally based artists to open
up for the selected touring & regional musicians for the ArtFRONT series I
am faced with a challenge. That of
appropriate styles to match up with the headliner, plus artistic
integrity. I have been watching Aimee
Wilson of Chattanooga develop her particular style of ethereal folk music for
quite some time. Aimee is more than
just an acoustic musician. She is also
a visionary leader of her own “movement” of sorts. Ignoring her more common contemporaries rush to play the bar-room
venues. Aimee has put together a group
of like minded artistic individuals that have
gone into unique situations with her music. Such as house and basement concerts, a mission to bring free food, music & art to Chattanooga’s
homeless at Miller Plaza, and concerts in acoustically enhancing rooms such as
Chattanooga Bouldering Authority’s indoor climbing wall. And recently in a Nashville recording
studio, she put together “Timbers Fall,” her first full length 10 song CD.
In selecting songs from this young artist’s first
offering I am struck that there is genius at work here. Underlying the sometimes shy and halting
false starts there are several songs that even with inconsistencies open up and
reveal a beautiful and complex framework and messages that are very deeply
thought out. There are a few tunes that
will definitely stick with You once you hear them.
Aimee’s music has been described as lazy front porch
rocking chair music, hence the name of her “organization” “The Porchfront
Factory” and her website www.porchfrontfactory.com where You can read some of her writings and
get some insights into the spiritual community that is being built through
their artistic, literary and musical pursuits.
I am recommending these songs off Aimee Wilson’s
Timbers Fall for airplay on WUTC 88.1 because of their unique style and humbly
presented beauty with an understated passion.
This is also the type of music that fits within what WUTC 88.1 has been
trying to do in presenting opportunities to the local artistic and musically
literate community for the 20 some odd years that I have been listening.
Track #
#2 Timbers Fall
#3. A Poor Man’s Life
#5. Beneath Your Hands
#7. Run Away
#8. Far From Here
Aimee can also be found through her Myspace page, www.Myspace.com/porchfrontfactory
~R.