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Album: Kasey Anderson: Nowhere Nights

by Barbara Mitchell on December 23, 2009

doorway04On “Nowhere Nights,” Kasey Anderson firmly establishes himself as one of Portland’s strongest songwriters — a masterful storyteller whose gruff voice lends a hefty dose of truth to his world-weary tunes. His stint in Bellingham permeates these songs, which have a rootless romanticism that’s most artfully framed on heart-on-a-sleeve numbers such as “Like Teenage Gravity” and “Leavin Kind”. Anderson’s landscape might be full of small town trainwrecks and awkward encounters, but his songs are full-blown cinematic masterpieces, written and performed by a gypsy soul with a nesting impulse.

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  1. [...] “Anderson’s landscape might be full of small town trainwrecks and awkward encounters, but his songs are full-blown cinematic masterpieces.” – Oregon Music News [...]

  2. [...] reviews for Nowhere Nights are beginning to surface (you can find them here, here, here, here and here), and as the physical product hits the streets I suspect that they’ll begin [...]


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bmitchell Barbara Mitchell

Barbara Mitchell a freelance writer whose work appears in The Oregonian, Magnet, the Stranger and NPR’s “Song of the Day.” Until recently she was the music writer for the Portland Tribune. She began her career in the music industry as a publicist for various independent labels in Los Angeles (Slash, World Domination, Triple X, Alias) before relocating to Seattle and working as an independent publicist for clients as varied as Death Cab For Cutie, Rickie Lee Jones and Marc Almond. She managed the Posies for five years, and briefly had a label called Roslyn Recordings which released albums by Mudhoney’s Steve Turner, Marc Olsen, Derby, Cabinessence, Downpilot and the Transmissionary Six. Sarcasm and bacon rank high on her list of favorite things.