Artists:Beth Amsel
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To hear Beth Amsel sing is to experience a stunning, commanding power. Daniel Gewertz of the Boston Herald calls Beth's voice, "simply one of the most beautiful on today's folk scene."
When she was twenty, Beth was jarred in the middle of the night by a phone call from the Boulder jail. An acquaintance was in the slammer and needed someone to pay his bail. Beth paid the hundred dollars and accepted, as collateral, his guitar. "I don't play guitar," she told him. "You won't have it long enough to learn," he promised. Two years later, the repayment never made, Beth cracked the case for the first time and met her muse.
Living alone through a particularly bitter Colorado winter in 1994 gave Beth the time she needed to learn the instrument, to set her thoughts into song, and to begin to hone her craft to the sharp edge it holds today. Within a year she had amassed a devoted, almost fanatical, following among acoustic music aficionados in Colorado. And when in 1997 she moved to the vibrant singer/songwriter scene of the Northeast, she was ready to bring her music to a larger audience.
Since then, the word has spread quickly. Sold out shows at clubs like Cambridge's fabled Club Passim, appearances on an increasing number of compilations – such as lead cut on WWUH's Mayday: Folks Next Door, a featured spot on NPR's syndicated Anthem radio show, finalist of WRSI's Singer/Songwriter Contest, one of only three finalists in the 2000 Rosegarden Songwriter Contest, a showcase feature on the mainstage of the 2000 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, and a return to the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in 2001 as one of the four Most Wanted Artists.
Beth currently lives in a small mountain town west of Boulder, Colorado, with her husband, their cat, and Stella, The Wonderdog..
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| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| Common Things | Kindling | 3:25 | 3 |  3 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Girl with guitar / Acoustic / Acoustic guitar / Mellow | The Warning | Kindling | 5:35 | 9 |  6 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Solo vocalist / Folk pop / Band | Kindling | Kindling | 2:06 | 4 |  0 votes |
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