Music Review

Left for Dead (1997)

EW's GRADE
B

Details Lead Performance: Kieran Mcgee; Genres: Blues, Folk

Like Iris DeMent, 15-year-old Kieran McGee seems a voice out of time, connected to a folk and blues tradition whose heyday was some 60 years before he was even born. Left For Dead isn't just school-learned traditionalism, though; with his raw, rangy voice and skeletal picking, McGee delivers his songs with gut-rattling ferocity and insight beyond his years. The anti-Hanson? B

Originally posted Aug 22, 1997 Published in issue #393-394 Aug 22, 1997 Order article reprints

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