Women Making Music Spotlight on Greensboro, NC based Songstress and Songwriter,
Casey Noel By Peggy Ratusz
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For me, getting to know Casey mostly through her words and music was like reading a book. And her story is definitely a page-turner!
I was upbeat in my determination to find out how this approach, sending questions for our guest artist to answer in her own written words and then send back to me might shape the content. I mean, I’ve sent questions to artists. They’ve sent them back to me in their own words before. But to have never met or spoken on the phone? This is a first!
When listening to the songs she sent me, I concertedly envisioned her in front of me, strumming and picking her guitar and singing, presenting her songs special-audience style just for me. I literally lay in my bed as I listened for the first time so I could relax and take in her melodies, her rhymes and phrases; her phrasing; These profiles of love, loss, sassy smart advice (solicited or not), confessions and hope.
asey and I have never met or even spoken on the telephone. I have been writing this feature, Women Making Music for fifteen years and this is a first for me.
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thesofiamagazine.com | November 2020
At 24 years of age, Noel is already highly acclaimed; a freshly emerging songwriting ingénue; a young woman with something new to say about familiar themes. Not Just Pretty Words is a six song EP she released in June of this year which has received great reviews. Mason Winfree from Americana Highways says she “conveys narratives that provoke deeply embedded emotions lingering just below the surface.” From The All Scene Eye blog: “… pleasantly unhurried, like leaves floating past you down a creek.”
