Doin' The Most Music Series...Denitia Odigie

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Subject: Doin' The Most Music Series...Denitia Odigie

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To finish a spectacular music series with some of the most phenomenal talent were bringing you one more...singer/song writer Denitia Odigie will be rounding out the music series and how I can not wait for this one..

Followed by the flyest DJ and Altermah on the wooden xylophone

Monday
August 30, 2010
9pm
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NO COVER!!!!!



ITS THE RUTLEDGE, IN NASHVILLE, Tennessee, and Denitia Odigie is singing up a delicious mixture of Al Green and grunge. It sounds, in theory, like a bipolar combination. But a room full of hipsters, college students, and wannabe-edgy, multiculti yuppies is digging it. She sells out of her EP, along with a pile of T-shirts, talking late into a rainy spring night with fans in a venue far from where youd expect to be hearing this combination of soul with 90s irony--Ani DiFranco and R. Kelly with Eartha Kitt mediating, maybe? Odigie's reviewers have compared her to Cat Power and Corinne Bailey Rae, probably because she has an ethereal voice and stunningly beautiful face (really--check the photos). Shes got a cool edge, a surging presence on stage, and unbounded songwriting power.

Odigie writes it like she feels it. At their best, her songs are hooky, but complex; they have melodies that Germans charmingly call "ear-worms", because they're hard to get out of your head. Yet when you listen to them again, the stories turns out to be a little more twisted and real than you thought. I should have known you were a green-grass-chaser, Odigie sings, when you came walking in my door...its not sexy anymore. Thats a type all of us know too well and have been much too attracted to before.

Her production and arrangement, particularly in its latest incarnation guided by Paul Buono, has this same combination of familiarity and unsettlingness. You thought you were listening to the Cranberries, until you heard the saw whining, and then the gain on the vocals, and what the hell made that sound, back there on the left side, for a half-beat? This is generative Soul, lyrically and sonically: telling it like it is, but signifying on it too.

Odigie was raised in Houston, so she could have done it there. She could have taken her passion to Austin, hybrid music capital, two-and-a-half hours up the road. But she went to Nashville, and she got three things: a Vanderbilt education, tighter songwriting than your usual R & B these days, and a posse of fabulous musicians in her orbit. An up-and-coming publishing company, Weston Boys, signed her to a deal in the same month they signed Jace Everett (who wrote and performed the True Blood theme song, Bad Things). Shes constantly on the pages of the Nashville Scene, and has gotten fantastic reviews from Canada to Knoxville to Austin.

Indie mags and fans across the south and in the cool joints in Nashville are all wondering whats going to happen next for Denitia. She has recently relocated to Austin, TX, commonly know as "The Live Music Capital of the World." Her commitment to that hard-to-sustain tension between tradition and novelty, between her distinctive voice and a riveting sound, keeps broadening her appeal. Her brand new record, VITALITY, is out now. Come listen.