Name: Chucki Begay, Ritchi Anderson, Jr., Candice Craig, Carson Craig and Kristina Jacobsen by Kristina Jacobsen
Duration: 57 min 5 s
Description: Live interview and performance featuring Chucki Begay, Ritchi Anderson, Jr., Candice Craig, Carson Craig and Kristina Jacobsen. Recorded on 3/25/17 for "Women's Focus" with Carol Boss, KUNM 89.9 FM.

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music by Sara Snyder

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Five Senses Song (original)

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Live interview and performance featuring Chucki Begay, Ritchi Anderson, Jr., Candice Craig, Carson Craig and Kristina Jacobsen. Recorded on 3/25/17 for "Women's Focus" with Carol Boss, KUNM 89.9 FM.

Chucki Begay, Ritchi Anderson, Jr., Candice Craig, Carson Craig and Kristina Jacobsen

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Kristina Jacobsen’s first album, Three Roses, proves that she is a certified country singer/songwriter who couldn’t be more authentic if she had been born backstage at the Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport, aprogram that she celebrates in a song of the same name. She delivers her 11 originals in a yodeling alto that can warm your heart, bite off a searing denunciation, or celebrate good times with equal fervor. The songs revolve, for the most part, around family, both blood and chosen, and she is especially adept at portraits. “Long Returning Road,” written with Janni Littlepage, was inspired by the lives of two female ancestors whose dreams were torpedoed by life’s realities. “Inez” paints a Navajo woman—“A Latter Day Saint, but she drinks pop and whisky”—who’s been beaten down but not conquered. “Has-Been Cowboy” flips off a man turned into a bitter bully with a limp. “Dogs and Children” delivers a startling simile that compares an abused dog with its owner: “Like her, he’s a carcass on a chain.” “White Knuckles” tells of a successful woman’s emotional dislocation, and how her infant’s white knuckles grasping her finger relax her own frozen grip on anxiety. There’s grit, dust, desolation, and abandonment—hey, it’s country music—and love and redemption enough to make up for it. Jacobsen, who plays guitar and lap steel, is backed by a fine group of musicians, and they help her, as she says in her song “Ms. Loretta Lynn,” “sing it sassy . . . sing it downright brassy.” Mel Minter, Musically Speaking

Review of the album, "Shelter," in Italian:
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Tocchi sonori di honky tonky e musica di tradizione orale americana sono le maggiori influenze nell’opera di Kristina Jacobsen, influenze profondamente scandagliate e poi avvolte da una quiete apparente e da un senso di intimità che emana dalle sue ampie melodie.
 
La voce della Jacobsen è ciò che più brilla nel suo ultimo disco, Shelter, edito nel 2019. L’album è espressione della sua sensibilità lirica ed espansiva allo stesso tempo, mentre l’ascolto è vissuto come un atto rituale.
 
La canzone "I Don’t Wanna Smile", con un’ampia gamma di influenze honky tonk, seduce l’ascoltatore gradualmente fino al raggiungimento di un punto cruciale nell’autoconsapevolezza della particolare situazione sociale e femminile descritta nel brano.
 
L’autocoscienza è un processo estremamente complesso per la musica country, ma Jacobsen, esperta in postmodernismo, decostruisce e riassembla il genere connotandolo con una gioia che dissimula un magma interno. L’esperimento funziona, grazie alla sua intensa presenza vocale e a una prospettiva storica che fa trasalire. Nell’ultima canzone in danese, l’argomento è un faro, "Fyrtårnet” e si allude a una sorta di luce presente in ognuno di noi, che si accende da dentro, per poi brillare all’esterno, affinché tutto il mondo possa vederla. Questo è il senso profondo di Shelter" (trans. Luciana Manca). Alibi "Sonic Reducer," June 26,2019, August March.

Chucki Begay, Ritchi Anderson, Jr., Candice Craig, Carson Craig and Kristina Jacobsen

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