Performing Songwriter magazine
December 2003 Issue
DIY Record Review by Noel Murray
Myron McGhee
"between"
Produced by Myron McGhee and Juana Clem McGhee
Myron McGhee and his wife Juana sideline as directors and spiritual advisors
for The Ajalon Group, a not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting
healing and renewal through the arts. That spirit of peaceful exploration
suffuses Myron's album "between", which presents his James Taylor
inspired folk ballads in expansive, jazzy arrangements sweetened by piano
and five-string bass. Tracks like "battlefields" and "set
me free" stretch toward and beyond the seven minute mark, stringing
together visions of personal trials overcome through faith and human companionship.
McGhee has an innately appealing sound, a soothing, new-agey backdrop
that sets the stage for lightly soulful messages of encouragement. --
NM
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