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Andy and Renee provide a much needed connection with live music to their audiences, whether in an intimate House Concert or at a large festival. Their music never fails to move you..your feet, your heart, or, most often, both.

 

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Album Reviews

Midnight Tea

"Midnight Tea is a unique piece of modern Americana with few equals, nor is it likely any will arise soon."
A review written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange by Mark Tucker

 

A River Is Gone

"…It's an excellently written album as Andy Hill is rapidly becoming a songwriter to watch… Another wonderful effort... Renee has never sounded better vocally. Highly recommended!"
http://thehereandthere.net/music-reviews/entry?id=1
 Michael Sullivan




It Takes A Lot To Laugh

"...Safier's voice oft drips with an aching sensitivity filtered through delicate beauty and a fragility that would break and disappear in less capable hands...Hill's cuts drenched in prairie sod, the workingman's lament, and a salt-of-the-earth sprechestimme..So what about Marty Rifkin? Jesus, but this guy knows the depths of his art and instruments dead cold, nailing colorative and side-lead aspe's highly reminiscent of Red Rhodes. He cuts in witheringly arresting lines, fills, and incidentals. His dobro playing is heavenly and that pedal steel...
A review written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange by Mark Tucker

 

5 out of 5 stars Impressive.
Reviewer: Shaun Dale
You'll have to go on-line (www.andyandrenee.com) to pick this one up, but if you're admirer of the songwriting skills of Bob Dylan (i.e., if you're alive and not deaf), then this tribute from the SoCal folkies Andy Hill and Renee Safier is worth the effort. Drawing on a wide chronological range of the Dylan songbook, Hill and Safier, accompanied by Marty Rifkin on bass, guitar and various slide variations, offer 14 straightforward interpretations. Their selection of material is impeccable and impressive, frequently departing from the obvious in order to include the excellent. Their ten years as a performing duo, and five previous albums largely devoted to Hill's songwriting, contribute to a fine intuitive sense of arrangement, with their voices weaving and blending in just the right ways in all the right spots. The duo has been throwing Bob Dylan birthday parties for as long as they've been singing together, inviting all comers to arrive in costume and join in the music. They may have trouble getting the sing-a-long going next year, because any guest who has heard this disc is likely to want to just sit back and hear more excellent interpretations from this talented pair.
http://www.cosmik.com/aa-may01/reviews/review_andy_hill.html

"…Tributes like this can often sound forced or strained, like the artists are reaching for something they can't attain. Hill and Safier are extremely comfortable with these songs, and so the pieces roll off like old friends. Which, of course, they are."
http://www.cent.com/abetting/archH.html#ANDYHILL

5 out of 5 stars Best Dylan tribute album I've heard in a long time.
Reviewer: Steve Sevek [producer of CD: Thinking About Bob Dylan]
I was really happy to find this CD. [After purchasing a few others that were disappointing from other artists.] Each year around the anniversary of Dylan's birthday I take my Dylan CDs including Dylan cover songs to a local public radio station and play them. It's an early program [6 to 8AM] but I enjoy doing it. This is one CD I hope to play at least 3 songs from this year [May 20, 2006 - WJFF in Jeffersonville, NY]

5 out of 5 stars They got it right! ... A must have CD
Reviewer: Claude Julien
Rarely have I heard two quality musicians with such beautiful voices. Of all the Bob Dylan Tributes, this one ranks on top. It's relatively easy to play Bob, but to play Bob WELL, that's another story! They got it right, It's a must have CD. Don' t hesitate, you'll listen to it, over and over. CJ

5 out of 5 stars A Must Have!
Reviewer: Michael Sullivan
Ever notice some major acts will once in a while put out an album of favorite songs of other folks. Cover tunes they are called and its a quick and cheap way to throw some product out there while the artist records some new songs. Some are fun (Huey Lewis) and some are a terrible mistake (i.e. Shawn Colvin's Cover Girl). But once in a great while you strike gold and get an album that actually improves on the original and this effort by L.A. based duo Andy and Renee is solid gold. They have been big Bob Dylan fans and decided to put out a CD with some of Bob's classic tunes and its a beauty. For one thing, you can hear (finally) what the hell Dylan has been mumbling about and second of all, Renee Safier brings out the very essence of what is being said. The music is spare but it only helps showcase the very talented Hill/Safier harmonies. This album has 14 Dylan songs, including "Simple Twist of Fate","A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall". This is a must have.....


Fourteenth Of February
"…absolutely stunning vocal work."
http://www.musicaldiscoveries.com

Something Unbroken
"…twelve vocally rich tracks of varying styles… stunning album… warm, powerful and sensitive"
http://www.musicaldiscoveries.com/digest/digest.php?v=1&is=1

They All Laughed
"…Safier has a vocal gift from heaven, with her sensual smooth (yet delightfully rough at times) tone and artistic line direction in her performances… her own sultry.. sexy.. voice - the type of voice that could not only melt a heart, but perhaps the entire polar ice cap… the ample instrumental talents of Bob Malone, who's comping and touch on the pearlies is a compliment to Renee's interpretations…"
Reviewer: Earbuzz.com