Linda Stout

I was honored to open for Dulcie Taylor and Steve Key and then sit around the circle at Songwriters' Roundtable in Genesee, Pa. Steve Quelet organizes these nights. Dulcie and Steve Key and Steve Quelet write excellent songs. Steve Quelet was joined by his music partner Eppie Bailey, and having seen her once before, I remain just taken by her sweet country voice and how much she enhances the music with her harmonies. Dulcie writes really great songs, full of depth, plays guitar really well, sings well and interestingly. I felt like I met Joni Mitchell or something. Wow, and she was so nice. She plays a dulcimer as well as guitar. Steve Key writes very funny songs (I had to love the one about coupling and threesomes etc., hilarious, even with my parents sitting next to me), writes pointed political songs (and I agree with him) and sweet songs, too. I am listening to Dulcie's 2002 CD Diamonds and Glass, beautiful. She was great live and solo, but this is another treat to hear her music produced with a tight band sound and lovely harmonies. Pop, with a little twang, gorgeous. The song I felt attached to initially, from listening at her web site, "I Have a Ring" is playing now. I loved getting to hear her live. The setting for these concerts is special, people come from an hour away to listen. It's a listening room. People really listen and love music. I'll be back there for an outdoor jam fest in a month. Yay. The place, Genesee Environmental Center, was a ski resort and restaurant, very rural, and my dad's band used to play there on weekends. He said he remembers packing the place. He had a country singer and a jazz sax player/English professor from LA, so did this country-rock-jazz thing. Maybe partly that influenced me, so connected to jazz and the most Appalachian roots stuff.' Du Check these out: http://www.dulcietaylor.com http://www.stevekey.com http://www.stevequelet.com