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 The story of Beth Hart, an American singer-songwriter, is one of extreme highs and extreme lows, and there are two particular factors that illustrate this. First, her voice: when she sings, clocks stop, hearts dance, and neck-hair tingles, it's that compelling. The second is her rollercoaster story: in the late 90s, she was on the cusp of a promising music career, signed to a major U.S. label, national television bookings, hit singles, and great press, but her career careened off the tracks at its peak due to her drug and alcohol addiction. Beth Hart's story is one of incredible opportunity, heartbreaking loss, and now, with her recent show-stopping Kennedy Center Honors performance with Jeff Beck that honored blues great Buddy Guy, and the April 2, 2013 North American released of Bang Bang Boom Boom (Provogue Records/Mascot Label Group), redemption. Hart's reputation as a volcanic blues, rock, soul and gospel singer has been on the rise since the early '90s, but on Kevin Shirley-produced Bang Bang Boom Boom, she leapfrogs to the head of the class. "I'm pretty hard on myself," Hart admits. "I can never get my voice to sound like my heroes. On this new record, though, I get pretty close, and that's because of Kevin's production, along with his belief in my abilities as a singer and writer." Bang Bang Boom Boom is the album where Beth is finally able to admit she might actually be happy. In 2013 Seesaw reunites force-of-nature blues-rock vocalist Beth Hart and guitar hero Joe Bonamassa for a second album of choice covers from various musical eras. As with their first outing, Don't Explain, the project is in collaboration with producer Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Black Crowes). Each of the three principals suggested and selected tracks for the 11-song set list, which mines soulful classics previously made famous by Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Donnie Hathaway, Lucinda Williams, Buddy Miles, Tina Turner, Slackwax, Melody Gardot, and Nina Simone. The one-two punch of Hart's powerhouse vocals and Bonamassa's scorching solos both honors and reinvents the original recordings. For the album Seesaw, Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa received a Grammy nomination in the category "Best Blues Album". Beth Hart is also nominated for a "Blues Music Award" in the category "Best Contemporary Blues Female Artist".
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