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11/9/2005
Steve Sloan
Sunday opened with Bob Margolin saying to me, "I have to go watch Mary Flower, she's one of my favorites." Immediately my interest was peaked. I had never heard of Flower, but when Margolin says something like that one has to take a look. I am now embarrassed that I had never seen or heard of the wonderful Mary Flower! When she took the stage she was unassuming and understated as a librarian. Standing at the mike with her acoustic guitar she seemed too nice to be Blues. Then she began to sing and play that guitar. Flying around the Piedmont and Country styles of Blues she turned the stage on end with some of the finest finger-picking I've ever witnessed. Whether it was her homage to Blind Willie Johnson or her Rev. Gary Davis medley or her "finger-picking adventure in the key of D," Flower proved time and again that she not only understood the power of the acoustic guitar and voice, but she was the Blues from head to toe. Look for her Yellow Dog Records debut CD, Bywater Dance; people need to know this powerful, socially conscious, and true-to-the-Blues lady!