Search - Aubrie Sellers :: New City Blues

From the cutlery in the blender indictment of surface beauty ?Paper Doll? to the Lone Star drive of ?Just To Be With You? and the tumbledown melody of ?Sit Here and Cry,? this is a high energy box cutter of emotion: 14 songs marked by the bite and punch of smart girls who know there?s more to life than a cold beer and cut-offs. ?I tell people there?s not a lot of happy songs,? the Texas/Nashville hybrid cautions. ?But they?re not unhappy songs, either. It?s life... the way it is, and what?s wrong with that?? There?s a definite viscerality to New City Blues. From the yearning title track to the slow-building ?Loveless Rolling Stone,? the sense of displacement marking so many young people uncertain about the future tempers the pools of guitar lines, the way her voice has just the slightest ache when she finds a note?s center. ?