Think of a softer savvy Janis Joplin, a friskier Natelie Merchant with the sound simplicities and lyric complexities of Tracey Chapman and the Indigo Girls. There you have it, that's Niccole Bayley. Ya gotta hear it to truly understand, then you'll know.

16 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Folk Pop, ROCK: Folk Rock



Details:
Niccole Bayley, a northwestern singer song-writer, clearly displays what it means to be authentic. She happens to be musically talented as well. On her CD Despite the Dents she weilds her life experience into a musical masterpiece. Her listeners describe her music as "hauntingly truthful". With vocal capacities reaching beyond your "usual" listening, she has a refeshing difference to offer. Her 16 song debut CD diversly captures a rock and roll edge with songs like, "Put Me Back Together" or "You don't even know me", and then moves into a folk-country sound of "Despite the Dents" and THEN shows a little touch of blues-folk with songs like "Just Wondering".

She's right on the edge of all genres but manages to keep a similar flare and feel to the whole album. Many artist's music sounds the same from song to song. Each song you hear of Niccole's will take you somewhere in a story or a thought, but each song stands out differently and geniusly adds to the whole album collectivley. How she did this, whether purposely or not, is certainly a rare quality in musical albums today.

The mere title "Despite the Dents" goes along with the theme "to over come". Each song, brings a degree of hope and compassion on many diffent levels depending on who's listening. You can listen just to "groove" to it or if you feel philisophical you can take the songs layer by layer and be inspired to "rise above". A very positive and powerful album from an extremely "world-wized" musician.

Niccole shared the stage with artists such as Shawn Colvin and Karla Bonoff. She is New Jersey born and raised but moved to Idaho to be closer to the nature she loves. Recently she has won a song-writing award at a contest in Washington with over 80 contestants! She has been at the music biz for only a short while but has made significant leaps and bounds. She recently released a new album entitled "Smile" soon to be out on CD baby (if not already). Click on www.niccolebayley.com to find out more about it and the artist. Thanks for reading and enjoy the music!