We had a swell time at Taix on Friday! Thanks to everyone who came out.
We we’re lucky enough to be a LA WEEKLY PICK that night and here is what they said:
CIRCE LINK AT TAIX
Salvation comes in all forms, and on Circe Link’s latest album, California Kid, it arrives in the guise of the sassy, country-rocking opening track. “Save me from salvation,” the local singer declares defiantly, turning a typical cry for help into something more delightfully surprising, as her guitarist-partner Christian Nesmith (son of the Monkees’ Michael) buries her pleas in a wash of woozy slide guitar. Link may traffic in familiar pop, rock and country music settings — she comes off like a sweeter-voiced Bonnie Raitt — but she’s too slyly subversive to settle for the usual mainstream songwriting clichés. She could be describing her own music when she writes, “Mysterious and grand unknowable and fathomless/Yet common like the green of this fruited thicket.” The versatile singer is working simultaneously on two separate jazz and neo-folk projects, as well as a rock musical with Nesmith. Tonight, Link strums a low-key acoustic set. (Falling James)

