Madison Cunningham - Full performance, 2/14/2020, (Palace Theatre for The Current) 

underrated? by who?

Javier Pécora By the lack of people who know her.

Came down here to say something similar. She's SO talented!

Not to mention the quality of the songwriting! cause, you can know how to use the tools, but then not know what to make with them. She clearly has a vision.

I disagree she got a little ass back there!!

I'm totally cool with that!

Thank you!

Thank you muchy!

Danke

thank you

d'accord

Don't forget Joni Mitchell.

Braun Haus beat me to it -Joni Mitchell!

Huge Jeff Buckley influence too.

I hear touches of Jackson Browne

Post Corona 😔

NickyT You’re exactly right. She got so much performance mileage in last year and it clearly shows. Everything you could always tell she was capable of seems under her total command at this point.

Agree! She's incredible!

Totally! She did tour extensively with Andrew Bird, who is big on the improv vocals. I'm sure he gave her some pointers! She's amazing.

Seems like she's been rubbing elbows with the right people who bring the best out of her. Not saying she didn't have it to begin with and that she couldn't do it on her own, but I think it helps being around those type of folks.

I play in guitar/bass/drum trios and feel that it's too exposed unless there's a wall of sound, and then I hear this! She's just excellent. Redd Volkaert also plays in trios where the empty spaces outweigh the sound, to great effect. It takes confidence and self-belief to do that, and Madison has that in spades.

Due respect to the artist and her side men, but ... not a trio. I count four ... Guitar, Bass, Drums and Keyboards ... SO ... quartet. That said, the ensemble sound is still sparse ... and that is really hard to do. No place to hide. It allows each musician to be heard within their own context, not mushed down in the mix somewhere in the 28th overdubbed track. It is also what Leo Fender must have had in mind when he designed the Jazzmaster. That guitar is THE sound for this spare sounding music. It has the full resonant woody sound of an acoustic ArchTop without the feedback yet it still growls and distorts when asked. And she's great. She reminds me all at once of Joni Mitchell, Beth Gibbons and Shawn Colvin ... Joni for her sing-and-play skills, Beth for her quirky lyrics and Shawn for the melodic sweetness of her voice. Yet her uniqueness shines through all of these paltry comparisons. Few musicians actually sound like themselves. Most sound like the people they copied while hoping to catch a little co-opted greatness. In this, Madison is more like Pheobe Lou. Right down from the origin into the world.

I can hear a banjos, tijuana brass, some morricone vocals stabs and double tempo as it builds into a Doors-sque 'break on through finale'...it's a big riff. Radiohead meets Echo and the Bunnymen meets The Mavericks/Calexico

Two years later I'm still watching this performance of "Higher Ground," which, sadly, isn't on the track list of her new album.

Was thinking the same. Kind of a Buckley/Joni Mitchell vibe.

I hear jeff Buckley too and Andrew Bird

In an interview Madison said that she's been _haunted_ by Jeff.

Amazing

Yes! That's the first think I thought when I heard her.

Joni, Jimi, and Janis plus the Beatles!!!

I understand the comparison but I don’t think there will ever be another Joni. Just as I doubt there could be anyone to compare to Madison