Christie Leigh combines folk and rock with smooth, candid storytelling lyrics.

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POP: Today's Top 40, COUNTRY: Country Rock



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Critics describe Christie as "earnest and appealingly fragile, yet ballsy," and it couldn't be more apparent. Christie is stark against the backdrop of female artists - a girl equally "fragile" and "ballsy." Her music is haunting in the most basic of ways: the band is the idea of the Girl, the songs, her story. The narrative is simple and earnest, but the narrative, in her case, isn't the only important part of a song; there's something in the music and the passion it's performed with that exceeds the concept, makes the concept itself seem a dream we agree to believe in only to avoid the reality we suspect.

Christie's background as what could be described as a "music scene veteran" is impressive to anyone. From the big band tapes played into the ground by her grandfather, once the member of a band famed for opening for Bobby Darrin and Peter, Paul, and Mary, to the original music of her father's own band in the late seventies, Christie has been equally trapped and fascinated by music from the earliest of ages.

As it stands, Christie has performed all over New England at the Middle East, Harper's Ferry, All Asia Bar, Great Scott, Kendall Café, MDC Hatch Shell, Copley Plaza and many other local clubs and coffeehouses. She just returned from an impressive three week tour to support her new record, during which she played shows in New York, Philadelphia, Nashville, Mobile, New Orleans, Charlottesville and Pittsburgh.