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Forgiveness Road
Holly Light
Warrior Girl Music 2007
Cat No:
WGM44841
UPC: 780014484125
Listen to tracks
Format:
Pop/Rock/Americana
/AAA & Folk
Holly Light is a Females On Fire artist
FEMALES ON
FIRE 1& 2
various artists
Cat No:
WGM2DBL
48372
UPC:
780014483722
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Warrior Girl Music
Label and produced artist.
“Holly
Light has risen and found her groove. She has truly given it everything
she's got.”
- J. Kauffman, HBO Creative
 As
a Warrior Girl Music label artist and with
her new album "Forgiveness Road" produced by gilli
moon,
Holly
Light ain’t no bubblegum pop star.
Hearing her songs, you feel that you’ve known her your whole
life. Her infectious smile matches her blue eyes,
tantalizing, ready to tell us thousands of secrets… and she
does, with stories of her life, love and the way she sees
the world. Holly Light has more lyrical depth than the
Mississippi, has great rhythm just like any Creole musician,
has a voice that kicks you in the pants like any Motown soul
torch singer and she was born to entertain. Holly can
capture a room in the palm of her hand, just with her voice
and her guitar. She doesn’t need anything else, but when
with band, she rocks hard too. Her voice pleads and growls,
easily sliding between blackened blues, raw ballads and
grizzly pop all laced with the guitar chops of a seasoned
pro.
Holly’s has been singing, playing guitar and writing songs
since she was 11, inspired early on by artists like Bonnie Raitt
and of course the Queen of Soul, Aretha. Most liken Holly now to
Sheryl Crow and Melissa Etheridge. It’s understandable. Holly
rocks with her guitar just as fiery as those two and her songs
are mainstream and in-your-face radio hits. There’s an edge and
grit, though, reminiscent of Bonnie Raitt and Janis Joplin. On
top of that, Holly has a passion for social action (environment
and political causes) that could make her the next candidate for
President. But that’s not where she wants to go. As a born
entertainer, she’s creating change through her music and her
performances certainly rank her as one of the best this
generation has seen.
Her new album "Forgiveness Road" shows
off Holly’s breadth and depth as an established artist and
songwriter. “Forgiveness Road” is produced and arranged by
Australian poly-media artist and producer/co-songwriter,
gilli moon,
and co-produced by Holly Light and Matt Thorne (also mixed and
engineered The Eels, TRAPT, Plastilina Mosh).
Read
about gilli moon's producing here.
Already
having songs from it nominated for an Independent Music
Award (Los Angeles), “Forgiveness Road” truly
captures Light's alluring vocals and authentic songwriting,
with songs for the happy ("True"), the weary
("Amelia"), the smart political satire (Red, White
and Blues), the lost love (Over), the romantic (My Baby),
and most of all those who believe that love will
always live on ("Sentimental, I Presume"). Whether it’s
electric or acoustic, she’s at home with a guitar in hand
and an audience to woo. Holly cooks up a recipe all her own
that always leaves you wanting more. She’s raw, she’s
soothing, she’s funky and she rocks delivering it all with
music, lyrics and stories we should all step into.
Holly's original music is superior to many songwriters past
and present, a wise, introspective yet delightfully multi
talented artist. The wealth of her artistry, life’s travels
and experiences are woven throughout “Forgiveness Road”,
and this album truly makes Holly a definite force in her
genre...
Founded by prolific
poly-media artist, producer and entrepreneur,
gilli moon, Warrior Girl Music
is a creative arts company that is dedicated to unique
artistic creations with a diverse blend of music, art and
language - focusing on music and artistic development, a
music production house, a record label, a music publishing
and supervision arm and a Promotions division. Warrior Girl
Music's mission is to create, produce and promote unique
artistic creations that are guided by the artist's vision
and under the artist's direction; creations that transcend
race, age or gender and that embrace passion, love for music
and life, personal excellence and global consciousness.
“Forgiveness Road” is an 11 track album available through
Warrior Girl Music, aligning Holly with the one of the few,
truly independent & most creative production houses in
business today.
reviews
"Holly Light has risen and found her groove. She has truly given it everything she's got."
- J. Kauffman, HBO Creative
“Everything you love about live music is wrapped up in one dynamic,
impassioned bundle named Holly Light. I just saw Holly at
The Sedona Jam, and being the last act of a music, filled
weekend we didn't know what to expect. Blown away doesn't
describe her effect on the crowd. As the classic
singer-songwriter she has of course great lyrics, killer
guitar licks, and most importantly an incredibly powerful
voice. But Holly has the one other intangible thing that
great artists have to posses, perfect rhythm with her
audience. Her one hour set flew by all too quickly, thank
goodness the standing O at the end at least brought us 2
more songs. If you get a chance to see Holly live, don't
miss her. In this day of lip syncing and over programming,
you'll have the rare experience of feeling the deep
connection the audience and a musician can share with each
other.”-
Hillary Hirche, Sponsor of Sedona Emerging Artists
Festival
“Holly Light is a superb singer/songwriter/performer so in tune musically far beyond "the girl with guitar" the room spins from the swirling energy of each song whether a floor stomping bluesy rocker or heart breaking emotional
ballad. The new cd, "Forgiveness Road” is a collection of songs expressing thoughts on life,
love, loss, state of human affairs, and the renewal that follows. The strength of Holly Light's songwriting is the cool, carefree way the artist allows her music and vocals (raw, open and breathy) to ebb and flow with feeling, commanding
one's attention. Holly is developing and maturing as an artist as well as gifted storyteller. The songs are recorded and mixed with a fresh sound, masterful production ably directed by Australia's gilli moon, whose production and
collaboration on this cd offers new insights to Holly's own serious body of work without detracting from her spontaneous energy. Light captivates consistently with a lusty, haunting raspy effect to her voice as did Janis Joplin or Melissa
Etheridge. The title track, "Forgiveness Road", sparkles with influences with Delerium style electronics adding to the textured layers of the arrangement giving a depth to the honest lyrics "I wanna say I'm sorry baby/for making it so
hard for you to just/hold me/take me as I am" while drawing the listener in as though the song was meant for them.
The polished production compliments Light's crooning and singing as on the funky, upbeat "Love Ya" - a fun, hip shaking dance tune for any party. The studio band includes Jeff Dean on bass; Bruce Watson, guitar; gilli moon, piano, keyboards
and backup vocals on most tracks; Adam Gust and Brian Burwell on drums; Jesse T and Michelle Mangione, on percussion. Adding r&b flavors by guest artists, Little Sista, on a few tracks, but especially with the group's backup vocals on
"Red, White and Blues", Holly increases the edginess of this politically motivated number and raises the temperature on the cd a few notches. "Give It Everything You Got", is a Bonnie Raitt styled tasty slice of inspired blues rock that
gets your body moving.
Produced and arranged by Australia's wunderkind Gilli Moon, (who is masterful in giving Holly's talent the care it deserves as did Jimmy Iovine for Patti Smith or Steve Lillywhite for early U2), "Forgiveness Road" is
a brilliant cd that should be on a lot of Top Ten lists for 2007 independent music. Each track recorded and mixed by the talented, inventive Matt Thorne, who along with Holly Light shared co-producer credits. Put the top down, turn up the
volume...You'll enjoy the open country ride cruising "Forgiveness Road".
toni k. -
Songsalive!
“Holly Light shines like a silver dollar in a sea of copper pennies.”
- Live Magazine
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