Dao Strom





Dao Strom
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Vietnam-born, California-raised singer-songwriter Dao Strom is a truly unique writer. Critically acclaimed as both a folk songwriter and a literary author, this diversely talented artist tells her stories of Americana in pure, spare, insightful tones. Dao’s voice carries the ethereal weight of the Appalachias (or some other distant mountain range) yet her words and phrasing are plainly infused with an astute awareness of contemporary life. The songs on Dao’s 2005 debut Send Me Home have been praised for their “mountain music” authenticity as well as for their originality, likening her songwriting and vocal delivery to Americana songstresses such as Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, and Hazel Dickens. No Depression describes Dao’s songs as “redolent of stringband music filtered through the mind’s eye, untainted by the retroactive sentimentality of memory replete with displaced travelers and seekers…wandering by moving bodies of water that are by turns succoring and sinister.” Magnaphone Music calls Dao’s version of Americana "rich with a tender melancholy and gentle darkness.” Wise, literate, soulful, sometimes brokenhearted, sometimes world-weary, always compassionate, Dao Strom is a writer who taps into the depth and mystery of musical traditions, and turns modern melancholy into “pure and lovely music.” Send Me Home was recorded live to 2-track with Austin, Texas producer Brian Beattie (Daniel Johnston, Okkervil River).
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