Luckyday by Rachelle Garniez & the Fortunate Few

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Quirky | Jazz Vocals

10 tracks | 47 minutes

Released Jan 2004
on Real Cool Records / Old Cow Music

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Rachelle's latest release of ten brand new original songs is an evocative,luminous, fiercely humorous and emotionally intelligent collection of genre-defying New Americana, via New York City.

Editorial review

If Janet Klein brandished an accordion instead of a ukulele and moved her fascination with pre-rock singing styles to the '40s from the '20s, she and Rachelle Garniez would have much in common. A singer/songwriter with an ironic but never campy sensibility, Garniez has shown remarkable growth over the course of her career. Her third album, Luckyday, continues that trend. Opening with the sparse "Magic Time," on which her funereal accordion seems to mimic the mournful phrasing of a New Orleans second-line band, and continuing through an impressively varied collection of ten original songs, Luckyday has a somewhat downcast quality even on the more upbeat tracks. The album isn't entirely faultless; although it has a terrific, uncharacteristically rock-influenced chorus, the closing "The Last Thing I Ever Wanted" loses points for Garniez's overmannered singing: in the first verse, she sounds like Lene Lovich imitating Louis Armstrong. However, enough of the album, including the countrified torch song "Red Roses" (which is crying out for a Norah Jones cover, if only for its positive effect on Garniez's bank account) and the moody, blues-tinged title track, is on the plus side of the ledger to make Luckyday an album that any fan of Rickie Lee Jones, John Southworth, k.d. lang, or the Lullaby Baxter Trio will be smitten with. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

Rachelle Garniez, singer / songwriter / accordionist / performer was born into a musical family in New York City and has been devoted to music ever since. She began playing the accordion in 1986, and her explorations have taken her from playing on the subway platforms and in the clubs of New York to jamming with gypsies in Spain and performing at Carnival in Venice. Her compositions reflect influences ranging from the Blues, Continental and Klezmer to Latin Jazz and Country/Western. Billboard Magazine called her a "diva with a difference", and San Franciscoís Bay Area Reporter described her as "wistful, sardonic, sentimental and wry."

She formed her own band, The Fortunate Few, in 1996 and they released their first CD, Serenade City in 1998. recorded on Rachelle's own Real Cool Records label, Serenade City received critical praise in Billboard Magazine and other publications. Rachelle Garniez & The Fortunate Few released Crazy Blood (Real Cool), their follow-up CD in March 2001.