Live: From Hell to HelsinkiLive: From Hell to HelsinkiYou can take the woman out of Texas... but South-Texas bourderlands troubadour Bianca DeLeon -- on the heel of her successful studio recording Outlaws & Lovers -- proves here that you can't take Texas out of the woman.
The heated passions of the desperados of love that inhabit Bianca's songs are seamlessly transported from the borderlands to the Northlands, "From Hell to Helsinki", with the strum of a guitar and a well-bowed fiddle, in these live recordings.
Having learned her craft beside Texas masters Townes Van Zandt
and Guy Clark, then recording with Joe Ely, Joel Guzman, and Teye,
Bianca takes the long road back to her roots in this set of old
and new songs recorded at a Finnish radio station during her 2002
European tour. With just her dark, expressive voice and an acoustic
guitar, and with the elegant strains of John Permenter's fiddle
accompaniment, this stripped-down set brings Bianca's songs into
stark relief, exposing the bones and sinew, and her compelling storytelling
commands the foreground. There in Helsinki, thousands of miles from
home, the universality of her characters crossed all borders-geographical,
cultural, and emotional-and as teardrops fall in the borderlands,
so they fell in the Northlands.
Robert Earl Hardy (Author of A Deeper Blue: The Life and
Music of Townes Van Zandt)
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