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Sharon Little headlines the Gloucester County Summer Music Series
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“Follow That Sound”
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“What Gets In The Way” Live/Acoustic Session
Just over a year ago Philly singer Sharon Little was working as a waitress. Five months later, she was appearing in concert halls throughout the country as well as the opening act on the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss and T Bone Burnett Raising Sand tour.
Though she was approached to record by a producer aware of her vocal prowess, she rejected his offer. “He wanted to dress me up in some cleavage-revealing top and make a pop singer out of me.” Instinctually, she spurned the chance to be molded into the next Britneyjessicaetcetera. Rather than pursuing tarty pop stardom, she continued to study and absorb jazz and blues.
She met Scot Sax at the Milk Boy Coffee Shop in Ardmore, PA. Sax had been working at Milk Boy Studios, the facility appended to the diner, and the owner of the studio introduced him to Little who had sung on demos there. To say the two clicked musically almost the instant they met would be an understatement. “It was magic,” she remembers. The collaboration was a paradigm changer for Little as she grew exponentially both as a writer and performer with Sax at her side.
The pair usually travel by train, cut off from the rest of the world; they write and perfect their material in club cars, parlor cars, and sleeping cars, often to the delight of fellow rail travelers whom they encourage to join in their Amtrak-borne jam sessions. They will be traveling to the New York area with her raw, powerful voice in tow, guaranteed to literally raise the proverbial hair on your neck. Little will be headlining the Gloucester County Summer Music Series on June 6, singing from her 2008 CBS Records release, Perfect Time For A Breakdown—an album which gives listeners an indication of her musical influences and quest for a musical and emotional connection.