Inga Swearingen & The Bill Peterson Trio - Reverie

Size: 144,8 MB
Time: 62:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2005
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Tiptoes (4:11)
02. Black Crow (5:31)
03. Reverie (5:17)
04. Where Flamingos Fly (5:15)
05. Stargazer (6:27)
06. Down By The Riverside (4:40)
07. Happy To Be (3:42)
08. Sunrise (4:01)
09. Stompin' At The Savoy (4:19)
10. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (5:57)
11. Beautiful Love (4:47)
12. Just In Time (3:08)
13. My One And Only Love (4:49)

"Reverie" is an intriguing mix of moody originals and carefully chosen standards. Inga's clear, strong voice paints a colorful landscape of soaring notes and earthy rhythms beautifully framed by Bill Peterson on piano, Jeff Denson on bass and Ronen Itzik on drums.

Reverie

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Inga Swearingen - Let Me Call This Home

Size: 120,0 MB
Time: 51:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz/Folk Vocals
Art: Front

01. Message In A Bottle (5:41)
02. Edge Of Town (5:15)
03. Find My Way (4:36)
04. This City Never Sleeps (6:26)
05. Blossom Blue (4:43)
06. Edie (5:32)
07. Wood And Steel (5:07)
08. New (5:14)
09. I Don't Need No Doctor (4:31)
10. Short Trip Home (4:33)

Inga Swearingen's highly anticipated fourth album, Let Me Call This Home speaks of the yin and yang pull of home, having a longing for it, and wanting to leave it to ultimately come home again.

“Sometimes home is a place, other times it's a person. You can long for it, or want to leave it. And songs can take you home or take you far away," says Swearingen. "There is a constant to my sense of home, and it's also ever changing. I love the people I love, and no matter where I am, I carry them with me and I am home. But I also must leave to be able to come back. The songs on this album express this pull and yearning."

Swearingen compares the building of this album to building a house. Pouring a good foundation musically translates into putting down solid grooves on which the songs are built. The album easily interchanges time signatures and feels, giving the arrangements sophistication and intrigue, but always serving the mood and message of the song. Continuing the analogy, walls are then built with rich harmony that is sometimes complex and dissonant and other times simple and nostalgic. These song structures support well-crafted melodies that are the roofs over houses where loved ones gather and experience the many facets of life. It all comes together to create a space that invites you to kick off your shoes and stay awhile in this house of jazz, folk and blues.

The fullness of the album, six original tracks, is the collaboration between Swearingen and Jeff Miley, an imaginative, provocative LA based guitarist who co-wrote, produced and mixed much of the album. Tracks Edge of Town and Wood and Steel uncover the paradox of being away from home to really appreciate it. Swearingen’s own Find My Way Home is a melodic testament to taking what life gives her and handling it beautifully. The song is enhanced with Inga’s signature scatting and the beautiful backing vocals of Moira Smiley. The album mixes in the compelling renditions of 80’s pop hits Message in a Bottle by The Police and This City Never Sleeps by the Eurythmics, connecting the listener to the shared experience of isolation. Ray Charles' I Don’t Need No Doctor delights with a front-porch blues romp featuring the brilliant harmonica playing of multiple Grammy-Award Winner Howard Levy. The last track Short Trip Home with music by Edgar Meyer and lyrics by Swearingen speaks to home by simply closing ones eyes to be with that person that is one's own solace. Altogether, the album is about love, longing and finding your way home.

Let Me Call This Home Instrumentation
Inga Swearingen - Vocals, acoustic guitar, resophonic guitar
Britta Swearingen - Cajon, vocals
Jeff Miley - Acoustic steel string and nylon string guitars, electric guitars, banjo, vocals
Dylan Johnson - Bass
Brian Kilgore - Percussion
Zac Mathews - Bass on "Edge of Town", "Edie" and "I Don't Need No Doctor"
Joel Alpers - Drums on "Edge of Town", "Edie" and "I Don't Need No Doctor"
Special Guests - Char Rothschild - Trumpet on "This City Never Sleeps"
Howard Levy - Harmonica on "I Don't Need No Doctor"
Guy Budd - Guitar solo on "I Don't Need No Doctor"
Moira Smiley - Vocals on "Find My Way"
Bob Liepman - Cello on "Short Trip Home"
Aaron Wolf - Alto sax on "Short Trip Home"

Let Me Call This Home

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Inga Swearingen - First Rain

Size: 120,8 MB
Time: 51:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Jazz/Blues/Folk: Vocals
Art: Front

01. April Afternoon (4:01)
02. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair (3:55)
03. Brick By Brick (4:16)
04. Blackbird (3:29)
05. Heart And Soul (3:53)
06. Two Trees (4:46)
07. Rooted (5:56)
08. Before The Journey (3:50)
09. Indian Summer (4:16)
10. Skylark (4:57)
11. Visa Fran Jarna (3:32)
12. Ample (4:58)

Inga infuses her signature jazz style with a good helping of folk and finds herself right at home.

"First Rain" enters new territory with songs rooted in family, farm, nature and love. It’s an upbeat mixture of smoky, bluesy jazz and beautiful down-home folk, with acoustic layers that bloom like a flower. Deeply personal, most of the songs were written, arranged and produced by Inga and feature silky vocal harmonies with her sister, Britta. The instrumentation is warm and intimate, with electric and acoustic guitar, stand up bass, cello, violin and Inga’s signature scatting solos.

“This album is a departure for me musically and it feels very personal,” says Inga. “The lyrics are about the people, places and times that have been and still are most dear to my heart. The making of it felt like a community barn-raising. Friends contributed and donated to the project adding another layer of gratitude to the music.”

A regular guest on "A Prairie Home Companion," Inga has earned consistently high praise from audiences around the world for her effortlessly natural phrasing, infectious positive spirit and vocal gifts that allow her to juxtapose husky textures with silky lightness.

“Inga has a gorgeous voice, very fresh and evocative and note perfect.”
- Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion

First Rain

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