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Kyndel Dollison - Rocking Frog Café, Portland OR - August 29, 2019
[from
Portland OR] Singer/songwriters are not my bag but I like TootsiePop and her
crowd. I’d met Kyndel at a birthday party briefly but remembered her because
she’s got swagger – porcelain doll face incongruent with sporty sarcastic vibe.
No one was sure what to expect in this tiny-coffee-shop-venue but I was
relieved/pleased by song one – she can sing. A lite whiskey voice. Easy
comfortable. Pop perfection – smart but not overly literate or wordy. Appropriate
hooky repetition. Tracy Chapman, Indigo Girls, OAR, 90s college rock. Maybe it’s
not intentional but her music is underlaid with spirituality. Maybe Kyndel was
raised in the church. Or maybe Kyndel has spent time in personal growth. She
seems like someone who is internally accomplished. There is some social
observation, gender/sexuality. A lot of romance drama – there’s some personal
heartbreak but I suspect Kyndel’s the one doing the heart breaking 😉 There’s some
road-music – picture fields. "Thrill of the Rock" has Spanish guitar and spooky
60s. Midway through she switched to electric guitar and the sound switched to more
bluesy, Rolling Stones but still like 90s flavor of Toadies, Garbage. Still, two
different personalities. Creepy Little Love Song stood out. The sweet song
about babies pisses her wife off because they decided not to have
babies. A book from the lesbian book club inspired the song with the lyric “I’m
just a gay girl in love with a straight girl.” Did some crazy instant looping
with a guitar riff and breathing. Nice lyric: “I expect no less from an
arsonist.” Her song “Barrel” inspired by working 60 hour weeks at Nike and
finally deciding to quite and write this song. TootsiePop and I asked about
influences at the end of the show and she said Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty,
which honestly sort of floored me… the levels of generational and genre
separation that are required for Matchbox Twenty to be musical inspirations …
are honestly more than this space can handle. I was all fired up to figure out how to
disseminate, market her – I don’t know when I became that person. In the parking lot post-show, TootsiePop and DetroitFirecracker regaled me with their hard rock concert adventures they didn't invite me too, the jerks. ADIDAK.
[from
Portland OR] Singer/songwriters are not my bag but I like TootsiePop and her
crowd. I’d met Kyndel at a birthday party briefly but remembered her because
she’s got swagger – porcelain doll face incongruent with sporty sarcastic vibe.
No one was sure what to expect in this tiny-coffee-shop-venue but I was
relieved/pleased by song one – she can sing. A lite whiskey voice. Easy
comfortable. Pop perfection – smart but not overly literate or wordy. Appropriate
hooky repetition. Tracy Chapman, Indigo Girls, OAR, 90s college rock. Maybe it’s
not intentional but her music is underlaid with spirituality. Maybe Kyndel was
raised in the church. Or maybe Kyndel has spent time in personal growth. She
seems like someone who is internally accomplished. There is some social
observation, gender/sexuality. A lot of romance drama – there’s some personal
heartbreak but I suspect Kyndel’s the one doing the heart breaking 😉 There’s some
road-music – picture fields. "Thrill of the Rock" has Spanish guitar and spooky
60s. Midway through she switched to electric guitar and the sound switched to more
bluesy, Rolling Stones but still like 90s flavor of Toadies, Garbage. Still, two
different personalities. Creepy Little Love Song stood out. The sweet song
about babies pisses her wife off because they decided not to have
babies. A book from the lesbian book club inspired the song with the lyric “I’m
just a gay girl in love with a straight girl.” Did some crazy instant looping
with a guitar riff and breathing. Nice lyric: “I expect no less from an
arsonist.” Her song “Barrel” inspired by working 60 hour weeks at Nike and
finally deciding to quite and write this song. TootsiePop and I asked about
influences at the end of the show and she said Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty,
which honestly sort of floored me… the levels of generational and genre
separation that are required for Matchbox Twenty to be musical inspirations …
are honestly more than this space can handle. I was all fired up to figure out how to
disseminate, market her – I don’t know when I became that person. In the parking lot post-show, TootsiePop and DetroitFirecracker regaled me with their hard rock concert adventures they didn't invite me too, the jerks. ADIDAK.
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