Blog: Sound Bites

"Whoa, she's got a keyboard player," I remarked as Emmy the Great was setting up for her first of many CMJ shows at Pianos Tuesday afternoon. I'd seen Emmy play four times previous and at none of them did she have more than a second guitarist and a violin player. But here she had three people backing her. No, four. Wait...five. Oh my god, Emmy the Great are a six piece? My first thought was "Isn't this overkill?" I always compared her to Billy Bragg or Mary Lou Lord. One of those [...]