Is Bill Deasy 'Being Normal' ?



Pittsburgh-based singer/songwriter Bill Deasy is one of the best performers working today and I feel privileged to call him a friend. While Bill has forged a successful career as a songwriter and perfomer - and in recent years award-winning novelist! - he is still skimming just under too many people's radar. While my favorite artists have always done this, thrived just under the radar, making what uber critic Robert Christgau likes best, 'semi-popular music,' Mr. Deasy richly deserves a  wider audience.

Readers, check out Bill's website, listen to some of his music, buy some CDs, go to some shows.

http://www.billdeasy.com/

Now, if we could only get him to release his latest album on VINYL!

Bill, are you listening?



Critically, Bill Deasy has been rewarded with many fine reviews. Most recently, in relation to his latest wonderful album of new songs, 'Being Normal,' American Songwriter's Holly Gleason writes:

"Bill Deasy has a voice that dust caught in a sunbeam, worn denim and just a tiny bit of Woodford Reserve folded into the Earl Gray, and that intoxicating blend of comfort and warmth seeps into his listener and unravels their tensest unknown places. Largely a romanticist working from a Rust Belt reality, the Pittsburgh singer/songwriter who was once half of the pastoral populist adult alternative Gathering Field, Deasy sketches heroines that are everything an urban-bohemian free spirit would hope to be.

A journey through shadows and life, the opening “No One Try and Talk Me Down” churns lightly, moves subtly and invites you in. From there, it is a patchwork of desire, realization and recognition - “Sweet Salvation,” “Traces of You,” “Whispered Words,” “Cry Hope” - that make life in the regular realm a bit more shimmery, a touch more lush. It is not just for rock stars and the indulged, it is for anyone who knows how to steal a glance, to touch a sleeve, to get lost in a dream that is wholly their own and savor whatever recognition is found in what was, is and possibly might be. Anyone yearning to escape their dreary state - even for a moment - need only to venture to
www.billdeasy.com."

 

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