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A song about what it feels like to be alone and lonely in the world.
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- artist:Queen Esther
- featured artist:Queen Esther
- region:New York City
- release year:2023
- style(s):Jazz, Americana
- country:USA
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Esther, Queen
- label:released by artist
- publisher:BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
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"While early descriptions of Queen Esther were along the lines of “the unknown queen of Americana,” a little dynamite should be added to those words to call her the “ecstatic ruler of the outer cosmos.” Because she sings like a cosmic visitor from another solar system, and then takes semi-normal songs and turns them into irresistible creatures of the semi-beyond. Her voice possesses feelings inside it that sound like they originate in a place that no normal humans can reach, and at the same time are as simple as the South Carolina low country where she once lived. Raised in Atlanta, George before striking out for various outerlands, the Queen received early musical visions performing with James “Blood” Ulmer, which included a tour of duty with his band Odyssey. Needless to say Queen Esther drinks in fully from the musical waters that really have no name, but instead come from an inner fabrication where the woman understands what roots are really all about, and then implants them wherever she sees fit. This is free-form fullness that knows no walls. There is no real description of what Queen Esther has accomplished on RONA. Rather, it is a musical osmosis that is exactly what America and the rest of the world surely needs to assimilate into modern life, so maybe the human race can get on with living openly instead of boomeranging between fear and fanaticism. In a time when the ticking countdown has begun, and it often feels like only some new coagulate of magic can save the day, songs like “All That We Are,” “Oh My Stars,” and, yes, Bread’s “Lost Without Your Love” ride to the rescue in the loving arms of a woman who has seen the future and knows it is firmly on the way. Do not despair." -- Americana Highways, Bentley's Bandstand