What People Have Said about the Recordings
The CD is produced and mixed quite well....reminds me
quite a bit of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Family.
Marti is an accomplished musician ... a recording star of considerable merit....
"Plain And Fancy" displays her melodic singing voice, and her song writing ability.
Bill Melody, Country Music Hall,
WBCB 1490 AM
Author of When Country Was Gold In The Delaware Valley© 2007
Lovely selection of songs! It’s been a long time since I heard Barbara Allen;
certainly sung so beautifully! ... In Piney Hill I can see the view from the hill....
-- Nick Campling, inventor of the G7th capo
…really
loved Lucid, and was playing my version of it for some folks in boston last
week who loved it.
-- Kevin Roth, artist, dulcimer virtuoso,
singer/songwriter
Rogers gives new life to old standards like "Barbara Allen," "Shady Grove,"
....
-- Mary DesRosiers "Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine"
Plain & Fancy's pleasures will find their way to you....Rogers ... has gathered up some standards ... such as "Barbara Allen,"
"Shady Grove," "Johnny, I Hardly Knew You," "Fair & Tender Maidens" and the like, then scattered them amid a few of her own
compositions (notably the striking "Lucid, the Rambler").... Her approach is the mostly unadorned one that you may
remember from records on Sandy and Caroline Paton's Folk-Legacy label: spare,
entirely acoustic, sweet-voiced, deeply experiment-averse.... You don't hear that sort of thing much these days.... The resulting sound is living-room ambient,
coming at one -- one has the impression -- from never more than five or 10
paces away. Homey and intimate, in other words, comfortable as an old, faded
flannel shirt, a much-occupied couch or a beloved book you return to every
few years."
We have enjoyed your wonderful recording very
much. When we play it yet again we stop
everything and just listen and enjoy!
Marti’s sweet voice and distinct enunciation makes it so special. We enjoy also the autoharp, the lap dulcimer
and the guitar. I find myself humming
the music the next day.
Dr.
Ida C. Schmit
(over 90 and still in practice!)
Just
finishing up my first full listen. Spare, clean, clear, pure and very personal
spiritual quality. The listener feels like the songs are being played expressly
for and to them.
Peaceful.
Soothing. Calming. If you pay attention you get pulled in. Like reading or
listening to a radio show.
Dejavu. The other
time and other place that calls us all back.
Great Job !!
-- Will See, Singer / Songwriter
I've been enjoying
your CD this week, and my wife Debbie has enjoyed it as well. My favorite is
Gold Doubloon, which I remembered hearing you do up in Princeton...a great
song.
-- Steve Quelet, Singer / Songwriter
Hi Marti
We really enjoyed your concert Sunday. You have a terrific voice
that is very haunting. I listened to your CD on the way in and although I did
not get through the whole thing yet, I did skip to your original songs, which I
thought were quite good, especially ... "Piney Hill," which is
lovely. Plus, I think your rendition of "Pretty Saro" is the best I
have heard ( I played that one several times).
Tom was terrific on the bass and he is such a hoot with his sense of
humor!
Thanks
Sara
For Bookings or More Information, Contact Marti at MartiRogers@MuseMe.NET