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Praise For 'Delancey Street'
“She writes a fantastic hook…She very much reminded me of Dylan in the way she approaches her work.” - Phil Ramone
"Lovely, like medicine for the ears" - Melodic.net
"Always quirky and memorable" - BroadwayWorld.com
"Gorgeous and sweet-sounding...with a witty edge" - Bay Area Reporter
"*****...crystalline vocals and untamed craftsmanship." - Maverick (UK)
"gently surprising, singular touches that come across as effortless...instinctive" - Irish Times (IRE)
"Sage sounds exactly like she looks: glamourous, sincere, sparkly and intelligent." - Music Week (UK)
"distinctive urban charm... Sage constructs a deft soundtrack that echoes a supper club." - The Dubliner (IRE)
"The next right thing you should do in your life is catch this show." Five Stars - Fringe Review(UK)
"a woman of many talents... Sage's music is honest, from the heart and relatable." - Entertainment Focus (UK)
"slick, confident & insanely fun to be a part of." - The New Current (UK)
"sweet melodies... enjoyable songs." - Record Collector (UK)
"foxy wit and undeniable talent." - Herald Scotland (UK)
"'Delancey Street' is a gem." - MOBO (UK)
"Excellent" - M Music & Musicians Magazine
"Rachael Sage has molded and shaped a sound beyond a mere current-day singer/songwriter, into a true soothsayer and storyteller...Four Stars for 'Delancey Street.'" - All Music Guide
"eloquent... genuine and compelling..." - BLURT Magazine
"a fresh intimacy... at the core of Delancey Street is a heartfelt quality that goes beyond intellectual exercise." - iTunes Review
"Sage's tightest and most personal offering to date." - Connecticut Post
"Confident and grounded." - The Beat Magazine
"Her music is getting better with every release"- The Deli Magazine
"Emotionally riveting songs underpinned by lush melodies, inventive arrangements and a flair for the dramatic." - Columbia Free-Times
"Track after track, she delivers one-of-a-kind indie, artsy songs with a sequin shine, which gives every one of her 12 songs decorative brilliance." - Campus Circle
"Sage (is) an artist who has always danced around the edges of brilliance and has now moved fully into its light." - Wildy's World
"intimate, enigmatic pop songs driven by piano and an expressive soprano voice...pretty songs about sometimes un-pretty things, little confessions and recollections delivered in atmospheric tones." - Asbury Park Press
"a cross between Elton John and Kate Bush... part-singer, part-storyteller and all about entertaining with her songs that veer from poignant to simply silly." - Salt Lake City Weekly
"hauntingly beautiful." - Intelligencer/Phillyburbs
"A witty lyricist and an adept composer...heartfelt and revelatory" - iTunes Review
"Sage is one of those frighteningly diverse talents who would easily make the rest of us feel inadequate if she wasn't so darn charming" - The Washington Post
"Rachael Sage's talent and "what's a Jewish girl to do?" observations...could turn out to be the unlikely hit of Fringe 2009" - The Herald (Edinburgh)
"Genuine talent...Sage has a knack for writing melodies that will break your heart without making you feel manipulated in the process... Where there's poignancy there's also subtlety, unforced passion and knowing observation" - RollingStone.com
"...rich vocals, sparkling piano and yearning poetry" - Time Out New York
"Smart, piano-driven songs that forge a resonant mixture of pop, folk and jazz, with a vocal delivery that conveys stark and yearning emotion." - CMJ
"Sexy, self possessed and impressive. This piano-playing artist's songs are both personal and socio-political... Sage has earned a place as a performer to be taken seriously, a force to be reckoned with." - Performing Songwriter
"a great gift...of incredible talent and beauty." - Judy Collins
"New York based singer, songwriter and pianist Rachel Sage edges ever more strongly away from the folk tag and toward piano pop. Her songs are a-whirl with light and emotions tinged with reality's frosty bite. Even when Sage's mellifluous voice reveals deeper and darker hues, (it) has vibrancy and beauty." - Boston Herald
"a muscular and hugely talented pop songwriter" - Uncut (UK)
"Inspired by…Elvis Costello, and backed by brilliant East Village friends of Rufus, Antony and such, Sage hits somewhere between the bed-sit and the cellarful of noise and it does you good." - MOJO (UK)
"lyrically and musically smart...it all seems so effortless and graceful." - Bruce Winter, WUWM (Milwaukee)
"Rachael Sage, the self taught pianist (who) specializes in moody folk pop" - L.A. Times
"Sage (is) the Jewish Norah Jones" - Washington Jewish Week
"Dexterous and haunting work, scored with dark emotional hues, rich chromatic chordings and surprising, adventurous changes. Musically sophisticated and accomplished work...standing tall next to any and all contemporary competition" - Philadelphia Daily News
"Rachael Sage is a veritable one-woman unstoppable force...and she puts her heart and mind into all facets of her work from recording to touring" - Amplifier
"lovely and literate...folk-pop-rock, socially aware and eclectic" - The Village Voice
"a deeply talented artist...with a uniquely rebellious style as quirky as it is passionate" - Keyboard
"haunting, passionate...This is Sage the storyteller in her prime - and folk at its finest. Like Sage, The Blistering Sun is a Renaissance work of music and poetry" - Venus
"Pop music isn’t crafted as expertly as this anymore and Sage is the stitch between the great rock and pop traditions of the past and what those traditions have wrought – albeit almost invisibly – in the hypermodern world of the present." - Billboard.com
"'Too Many Women'...possesses a timeless commercial quality...Sage does have that special something." - dailymusicguide.com
