Mckee, Beth
Sugarcane Revival
Beth McKees Sugarcane Revival is as earthy and raw as the cane fields that, like the songwriters past, stretch across the American Gulf Coast. The follow up to 2012's Next to Nowhere is a deeply passionate combination of funky emotion and powerful vulnerability, propelled by McKees upright piano and churning grooves from Cuban born husband, drummer Juan Perez. Sugarcane Revival is the finest outing to date from McKee, who first splashed with her New Orleans band Evangeline via MCA records, and whose lauded tribute to Louisiana songwriter Bobby Charles, I'm That Way, landed her firmly in the record collections of Southern music mavens, everywhere. "This lady is a true daughter of the South and sings like an angel with a day pass from womens detention.