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by Margaret Coble
September 2006
If you haven't heard or seen this duo, currently based in Asheville, NC,
who are partners in both music and life, make it your business to do so.
Named for the cats they each owned, separately, before meeting each
other, Cregan Montague (fiddles) and Danielle Tibedo (guitars) make
sweet, dreamy alt-folk rock that draws on everything from bluegrass to
punk to jazz, intertwining acoustic and electric guitars and fiddles
with their perfectly matched, harmonious vocals. The 11 songs on the
album vary widely from the country twang of "Bridges" and the
Southern-drenched swing of "Riverlady," to darker, swirling rock numbers
such as "Trouble" and "Hole in the Wall," to their hard-to-categorize,
haunting reinterpretation of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine." But
despite the variation, the album has a mesmerizing cohesion that's apt
to make you hit "repeat" over and over again. One part Cowboy Junkies,
one part Po Girl, with just a smidgeon of Indigo Girls (due largely to
their vocal harmonies and the fact that they are lesbians),
divineMAGgees deliver one of the best albums I've heard all year.
www.CurveMagazine.com
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