Rhyson Hall writes:
Georgia Anne Muldrow needs a band. More accurately, Georgia Anne Muldrow is a band, she just needs her instruments. All the time. At every show.
But even without them, she and Dudley Perkins successfully warmed up a frigid evening at SOB’s with just a CDJ and the fOnk. At her first NYC show in six years, they may have forgotten how “cool” NYC crowds can be, even when someone they want to see is performing, as indicated by Dudley yelling “Ya’ll Scary!” after our halfhearted attempts at clapping. “Lets see if you can snap. Can you snap?” Singing and rapping songs from early releases and her most recent recordings UMSINDO, Early, and Kings Ballad, her powerful voice and funky basslines eventually shook away any reservations. Snapping grew into clapping and clapping into a sing along for her final song Roses. I got the chance to speak with her and Dudley after the show and was surprised to find out she produces the majority of her work, playing all instruments and working the MPC. Word? With so many acts bringing live bands into their performance, the crowd needs to see the same from an artist that can actually play instruments, sing and rap. I’ll be looking forward to that from her.
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