August 6, 1998, Starbucks Coffee, Greenbelt, MD
All images (c)1998 by Christopher Russell
The sage arbiters of what makes "good" and "bad" pop/folk performances say it's all in the vocal harmonies. It's also said that kinship among the vocal chords is a prerequisite for achieving this. Well, Suzanna Mallow and Andrea Jones of Red Letter Day may not be sisters, but these two produce consistently killer on-the-spot harmonies. They can attribute their vocal perfection to eight years of collaboration. This eastern-shore based duo features Suzanna, on acoustic guitar, who pumps out rhythmic underpinnings on her jumbo cutaway Taylor or on a Takamine dreadnaught tuned to an open-D. Andrea adds multi-instrumental talents: in the course of two hours, she played alto and tenor sax, electric bass, recorder, harmonica, and a foot-pedalled tambourine... all of this while singing, too. Red Letter Day boasts two CD's worth of original material, a rather full performance calendar which takes them up and down the east coast, and no day job to contend with.

Here's more info about Red Letter Day.

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