Kelli Scarr - Dangling Teeth
Silence Breaks, 2012
Producer, Additional Engineer, Mixer, Additional Guitar
“Kelli Scarr's new record, Dangling Teeth, is basically a country record. There are still wisps of dreaminess, but she and her talented band are playing songs that sit well on my record shelf next to Neil Young's Harvest.”
- NPR Music , Bob Boilen
“Reminding us of times when we need bundling, when we need reassurance that this is going to pass too, is Kelli Scarr and her impressively earnest and delightful songs. Each of them - as they're heard here - is a little postcard from a few months back, always a few months back, when the fireplace was roaring a warm and smoky roar and when there was nothing better to do than to believe in the lasting qualities of something. When it's winter, you believe that it will never end and when it's spring or summer, you believe that what happened just before it must have been a bad dream and quite possibly unreal. She gives you the feeling of hair blowing in the wind and a fire that will never, ever die down. She gives you the feeling of something in time suspended right where it is, as if everything exists in the most miraculous kind of a vacuum. We're here, she's with us, we're all with the ones that we love and there's no leaving here. There's no getting away, just a slow-moving minute hand. It's like sitting on the bank of a glassy surfaced lake - not a ripple in sight - and a mother of a catfish leaps out from below the surface and just pauses in mid-air, back arched into a lazy C-shape, before getting swallowed up by the brown water. We're just sitting there, listening and watching and things like that jump out at us again and again. We sit here stunned, knowing that when the song ends, we're gonna see all of this get taken away from us and we're not sure what we're going to see outside our windows - something we want to see, or something we'll cuss a little bit. We'd just rather stay by this magical fire.”
- Daytrotter, Sean Moeller
“Twangy guitar notes, lovelorn anthems, and images of rolling hills and days gone by create an album that is a departure from the artist’s earlier works. Here she embarks on something new, full of purpose and conviction.”
- Verbicide