Tracy Bonham: Masts of Manhatta

"Ms. Bonham herself drifts back and forth between Woodstock and the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn. That duality is central to 'Masts of Manhatta' (Engine Room), Ms. Bonham’s first full-length album in five years. Due out on Tuesday, it’s rootsier and more relaxed than her previous work, with her vocals and violin set against Smokey’s Roundup, a Western swing band based in Brooklyn led by the guitarist Smokey Hormel. The album reflects changes in Ms. Bonham’s personal life — falling in love and getting married, moving upstate and studying yoga — as well as her embrace of music making on a human scale, removed from old pressures, both industry-driven and self-imposed. Mixed by the veteran engineer Tchad Blake, it is a modest but rewarding album, easily the most personal of Ms. Bonham’s career" (Nate Chinen, "Foot in the City and Cowboy Boot in the Country," New York Times, 7/11/10).

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