By Sonia Zhuravlyova
Liz Green has given up being a teaching assistant to concentrate on her music, which may be sad for her students, but is excellent news for us. Green, who accompanies her spectral and world-weary bluesy songs with an acoustic guitar, is the kindred spirit of Sixties American folk blues singer Karen Dalton, who was dubbed "the folk singer's answer to Billie Holiday".
Green, 25, is British born and bred and her clipped voice hints at a hidden depth. Her second single "Midnight Blues", a caustic tale of feeling a bit hazy after a night out, is out on Monday. And if O Sister, Where Art Thou? is ever made, Liz Green would surely be the star.
The word on the web
- thedailygrowl.blogspot.com
"Maybe Liz Green is not quite in Karen Dalton's league yet, but give her a bit of time and she could be. I'm quite smitten. B-side "The Wall" has a sweet little mistake bit near the start, to prove that Liz is charming as well as fallible."
- blogs.chron.com
"The one performer that I was very excited to see tonight was Liz Green, a diminutive singer-songwriter from the UK. She sings like she’s stuck in a very old radio playing very old jazz."
- isolation.tv
"I liked Liz Green the first second I heard that voice crooning over an acoustic guitar. Green is a relatively unknown and low-profile blues singer from Manchester who sounds like she is black, American and at least 50 years old."
- listentomanchester.co.uk
"Liz Green sounds like a shy Nina Simone, with an extraordinary voice held right back so that sometimes it's not much more than a whisper, making her gig an intimate and affecting performance."
- manchesterad.com
"She is kooky and charming, with a voice made to be heard on an old gramophone and a sound that sits somewhere between jazz, soul and folk. Her success comes as no surprise to her fanbase, who have seen her go from strength to strength."
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