Blog: Direct Current

It's obvious from just a perfunctory listen to her ornately orchestrated, sumptuously produced and sophisticated songs that Nashville-based Brooke Waggoner is definitely coloring outside of the lines of what normally passes for piano-based singer/songwriter fare these days. Cinematic in scope, sweepingly theatrical in style, dramatic in presentation, Waggoner's precocious, witty songs recall Aaron Copeland and Stephen Sondheim as much as any contemporary ivory tickler. We're not that surprised to learn that she's had 17 years of formal classical piano training (and she's all of 24 years old) -- this is richly detailed, complex music. She is, perhaps, Nellie [...]

• Brooke Waggoner - "Femmes" » Brooke Waggoner - Femmes.mp3
• Brooke Waggoner - "Go Easy Little Doves,... » Brooke Waggoner - Go Easy Little Doves I....mp3