Buy Alicia’s new album What Living’s All About.

Alicia sings twelve catchy jazz, blues, and gospel tunes, ten of them original, including her in-your-face protest song, America the Blues, featuring avant garde guitar hero Nels Cline. Gorgeously (self) produced, with three ensembles of top notch professional players in an LA studio, What Living’s All About emanates sex, spirituality, cynicism, humor, hip repartee, and occasional righteous rage. Listen to all the tracks at CD Baby!  For listener comments, click here. Jazz critic John Stevenson of ejazz news, London, hails it as one of the best CDs he's heard this year. Performing Songwriter Magazine has chosen it as one of the twelve best DIY albums in its May 2007 issue. For all reviews, click here.

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Alicia plays slack key guitar and sings sixteen Hawai’ian songs and medleys, eight of which are original. Two renowned Hawaiian musicians, chanter/percussionist Lei’ohu Ryder and jazz guitarist/vocalist Sam Ahia, join her. The CD opens with the first and only Hawai’ian birthday song (an original), followed by environmental anthems, turn-of-the-century instrumentals, Waikiki lounge tunes from the 1930’s, hulas in three part harmony, homages to Hawai’ian grandmother musicians, tropical feel-good swing tunes, and odes to landscapes of overwhelming beauty. The ten-panel full-color booklet, written, illustrated and designed by Alicia, includes the complete lyrics, translations of all the Hawai’ian words, and little stories about each song that include notes on Hawai’ian history, biology, geology, and social customs.

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The songs Alicia wrote in the late 1960's and early 1970's, around the time she created her book Living on the Earth. Mostly solo vocal with open-tuned, finger-picked guitar in the John Fahey style. Psychedelic folk songs about living close to nature and nature-centered spirituality. An Album Pick on All Music Guide. Recorded in January 2000.

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