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American singer-songwriter Alice Howe caught the attention of veteran Freebo with the five songs from her debut EP ‘You Have Been Away So Long’ (2017).
The bassplayer that is famous for his work with Bonnie Raitt and who transformed into a singer-songwriter, took her under his wing on her debut ‘Visions’ (2019) and the somophore album ‘Circumstance’ (2023): he co-wrote songs, played bass, sang the choirs and produced the albums. They also toured Europe and the US together.
Now a live album of a performance during such an American tour has been released, containing fourteen songs that they recorded during a concert at the Rainshadow Recording Studio in Port Townsend in Washington state.
On it they both played acoustic guitar and bass, with the sound of Freebo’s fretless being unmistakable. They also alternately sing the lead and the choirs with as much enthusiasm as conviction. Therefore the setlist is a combination of songs from Howe’s three albums and from Freebo’s four solo albums since 1999, whereas they also play three songs that make it clear that Freebo’s and Howe’s roots lie in the seventies: