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"To Keep and To Lose" - Directed by Steve Yager
"Good Man" - Katie Haverly & Vox Celeste 5.16.08-Red Square Albany, NY
"Real Good" - Katie Haverly 5.16.08 at Red Square, Albany, NY
Voted Best Songwriter (female) - Metroland, 7/2008
Katie Haverly
It’s been a few years since we’ve heard from Katie Haverly, but she’s back in a big way with her recent album Around the Bend. Haverly has always been a singer in the purest sense, with sparkling, clear tones, and limber and rangy dynamics. But in the intervening years her songcraft has deepened beyond mere folkiness. “Fire in the Kitchen†is a brooding emotional maelstrom with a touch of psychedelia, while “Real Good†is a spare emotional exploration at the other end of the spectrum. She is our songwriter of the year because of her keen poetical sensibilities, deft musical touch, and convincing emotional delivery. Hers is a “mature†brand of alt-folk, in the best sense of that word.
- Metroland
Katie Haverly is a singer/guitarist/songwriter of uncommon gifts. After living in such diverse locales as Colorado, Chicago, North Carolina, and New York’s Capital Region, Katie’s music displays a wealth of passion, living and maturity. A depth of flavor, if you will, that you are unlikely to find in another person of similar age and experience. Her songs cut a bright, living arc through her first two albums, Face Down and The City, showing us an emerging talent in its rising. Her songs map the human heart with an understated, but undeniable intensity.
Elements of rock, jazz and folk abound, topped with Katie’s languid, yet fierce vocal ability and an impressive lyrical facility. The listener is immediately drawn in, intrigued by what she has to say. These qualities set her apart from the current pack of sad-sack, tear in yer beer, shoe gazing folk musicians.
Katie’s new CD, Around the Bend, is scheduled for release in May 2008, and the word on the street is it will be well worth the wait.
-Albert von Schaaf, 2008
"It has been five years since her last album, but Troy singer-songwriter Katie Haverly has come back strong with "Around the Bend," a very impressive new album that echoes the seductive, literate sound of Suzanne Vega, as well as the shimmering, swirling alt-pop of Aimee Mann. Haverly is a first-rate songwriter, and the 10 sensuous, original songs that she's penned for this album show are her best yet."
- Greg Haymes, Times Union, 5/2008.
"There are singers, and then there are singers - and Katie Haverly's one of the latter, with one of those spectacularly effortless-sounding voices that reaches all over the scale and explores all manner of sound without ever coming across as forced or strident or technically perfect for technical perfection's sake. You hear the human being when she sings, not the studio or room or microphone that makes her sound so good, as the warmth and intimacy of her voice sucks you into the place where melody is pure and singing is an expression of a soul unbound."
- Erik Hage, Metroland
" Every now and then a musician comes along with just the right combination - beauty, voice, lyrics, and soul blend effortlessly with hard work, dedication, and natural talent to produce a performer serious enough to grab you by the lapels, shake you around and let you drop, astonished but happy and eager for the next shot. Katie Haverly has all of these qualities and more in spades."
-Joe Collier, Flagstaff Live
