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"Laurie Geltman wraps a lifetime of music fandom into three glorious minutes of pop. "Radio" is a love letter to those songs that you can't forget, the ones that hit your heart at first listen. And wouldn't you know, "Radio" is exactly that kind of song." -Brett Milano Author, Music Critic; Boston Herald, New Orleans OffBeat, and Music

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"Laurie Geltman wraps a lifetime of music fandom into three glorious minutes of pop. "Radio" is a love letter to those songs that you can't forget, the ones that hit your heart at first listen. And wouldn't you know, "Radio" is exactly that kind of song." -Brett Milano Author, Music Critic; Boston Herald, New Orleans OffBeat, and Music

You know that place you go when you're a kid when you shut the door in your bedroom, put your tunes on and all your dreams and hopes fly around your head? Maybe it's more a spiritual connection we feel with "our' music when we're young.

The song has an old-school soul vibe; I'm a big fan of Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Sly & The Family Stone, Al Green, Otis Redding, etc. I wanted that early 70s instrumentation, but I also wanted it to sound modern. Arranger and musician Paula Kelley got right to the heart of this sound with her string, horn and woodwind arrangements, plus her piano and glockenspiel playing make the song sparkle.

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Hello! There are a few hand-picked songs below ready for download or streaming. I've been working on uploading all the songs from each album, but building content around each album or song takes time. There will be credits, lyrics, and surprises along the way for those who download songs.

BUT, I do have HARD COPIES OF the following CDs: Motion Pictures, Up From Down (LAYNE ep) and No Power Steering. So if you are interested in me mailing you one personally (and can sign if you'd like) contact me from Contact Page and will get it to you within two weeks.

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Up From Down

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“Up From Down" is vintage Geltman, filled with raucous guitars and remarks both wise and wiseass. Some songs, like "Constellation" and "Up From Down," reflect the sting of Geltman losing people close to her, and others ("Sorry for You") find her on the dealing end of the blows.” -Sarah Rodman, Boston Globe

After three critically acclaimed albums

“Up From Down" is vintage Geltman, filled with raucous guitars and remarks both wise and wiseass. Some songs, like "Constellation" and "Up From Down," reflect the sting of Geltman losing people close to her, and others ("Sorry for You") find her on the dealing end of the blows.” - Sarah Rodman, Boston Globe

After three critically acclaimed albums (Departure, No Power Steering and Motion Pictures) a slew of awards and accolades from Billboard, the Boston Globe, Dirty Linen, A Boston Music Award and the winner of a spot on Lilith Fair Tour, she cast off her name and and let the decidedly more punchy pop-rock songs (and one heart-wrenching ballad called “Constellation”) take center stage on her fourth release. There’s plenty of truth, grit, beauty and attitude on the EP Up From Down. Geltman’s one-off project was made shortly after moving to LA from the East Coast, released in late 2006 on Geltman’s label RBP Records, and was produced by Letters To Cleo’s Michael Eisenstein who also played bass and split guitar duties with Geltman. They enlisted a first-rate band: drummer Fred Eltringham (The Wallflowers, Sheryl Crow), keyboardist Peter Adams (Juliana Hatfield, Josh Groban), string player Stevie Blacke (Beck, Pink, Madonna) and Michelle Lewis and Letters to Cleo’s Kay Hanley on backing vocals. And like most of the studio players, the live band (Aaron Tap, Jamie Vavra & Eisenstein) had all at some point been part of the Boston music scene where Geltman first made her mark.

The EP Up From Down was mostly a project band which Geltman hoped she could morph into whatever she was writing and with whomever she could wrangle in the near future. Illness got in the way of promoting this EP and the gigs had to stop, but most of the songs are currently repped by several music sync agents and libraries. "Milwaukee" has had quite a run and has played on Wisconsin Publis radio, is in the soundtrack for the video game "Life Is Strange" and was a finalist in the International Songwiting Competition in the peformance category.

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No Power Steering

Laurie Geltman

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Of these 13 original tracks, the Boston Herald said, "Geltman deploys elements of rock, folk, country and punk with panache on No Power Steering, tying them altogether with well-honed hooks and a voice that is tender and corrosive by turns."

Originally released in 1997 on her own label (RBP) to critical acclaim and re-released nationally by

Of these 13 original tracks, the Boston Herald said, "Geltman deploys elements of rock, folk, country and punk with panache on No Power Steering, tying them altogether with well-honed hooks and a voice that is tender and corrosive by turns."

Originally released in 1997 on her own label (RBP) to critical acclaim and re-released nationally by Eastern Front Records in 1998, No Power Steering revolved around the core band of Woody Giessmann (drums), Brian Karp (bass), Daniel Kellar (violin) and Laurie Geltman on electric guitar, harmonica and vocals. Guests included Jim Gambino (Swinging Steaks) on organ and piano, Patty Barkas and A&M recording artist Patty Griffin on backing vocals, Adam Steinberg on Electric guitar and Rich Gilbert (Zulu’s, Uncle Tupelo, Frank Black) on pedal steel.

The earliest tracks produced by Drew Townson and Geltman with Scott Mitchell on the drums ended up on a cassette demo that dated back to the heyday of Grunge and Americana bands emerging in early and mid-90’s. After replacing stolen gear and enlisting Woody on drums the rest of the album continued with Chris Lannon handling production. A couple of hidden tracks gave listeners a quick reference for the scope of her songwriting. It includes Geltman's first song that ever appeared on a CD (the acoustic version of the epic "Growing Down" and a two-minute blazing punk rock song called "I Got Somethin' On You."

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Motion Pictures

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""Laurie Geltman has always been equal parts rocker and urban songwriter. The local club favorite lets her acoustic heart shine on a live CD, 'Motion Pictures' (RBP) that showcases her probing lyrics and clean, bracing melodies. She has a knack for what songwriters call killer lines, the single image or captured moment that tells a life story in a

""Laurie Geltman has always been equal parts rocker and urban songwriter. The local club favorite lets her acoustic heart shine on a live CD, 'Motion Pictures' (RBP) that showcases her probing lyrics and clean, bracing melodies. She has a knack for what songwriters call killer lines, the single image or captured moment that tells a life story in a few words. The CD also highlights her charisma; no matter how hard this woman rocks, she never seems to be putting on a act." -The Boston Globe

Laurie’s love for different instrumental textures and arrangement fully blossomed on her self-produced and third full-length, acoustic album, Motion Pictures. Recorded live on a 16 track Tascam D88 recording system at the legendary Club Passim in Harvard Square, it featured an 11-piece band which she dubbed “The One-Night Stand Band.”

So quiet it sounds like a studio recording until you hear the applause, the title track of the album “Motion Pictures,” was named after Neil Young’s song which she covered as a way to honor one of her biggest influences growing up. The album stands out for its unique instrumentation like pump organ, mandocello, mandolin, pedal steel, upright bass and some of the best harmonica playing you’ll find anywhere with Jim Fitting and Trina Hamlin trading songs that showcased their immense mastery of the instrument.

Geltman also produced a short documentary on the event embedded in the CD which you can find here: https://youtu.be/R7FXe6Nivic

Hear and see the magic that came out of this session recorded at Club Passim, Harvard Sq., Cambridge, MA 7/11/99.

Departure

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"Her lyrics have something to say to nearly everyone." -The Portsmouth Herald

Recorded in the gap between 80s hair bands and the birth of grunge, this 9 song collection was born out of wedlock with all that was around her, spun out of an entire life of playing and writing songs, listening to rock, soul, jazz, pop, blues, punk. Grooving to live

"Her lyrics have something to say to nearly everyone." -The Portsmouth Herald

Recorded in the gap between 80s hair bands and the birth of grunge, this 9 song collection was born out of wedlock with all that was around her, spun out of an entire life of playing and writing songs, listening to rock, soul, jazz, pop, blues, punk. Grooving to live ska, reggae, African pop, Psychedelic Jam bands, Bluegrass. Studying Bebop and Film Scores and sleeping to Zappa and Ambient Music, loving both elegant Chamber Pop and the dirtiest Delta Blues, playing in experimental dance bands during New Wave and coming of age during the heyday of 70s FM radio, classic records and 8 tracks, remnants of bygone eras strewn about her memory; all the aural nooks and crannies a growing girl finds when obsessed with sound, condensed and distilled into 8 songs and 1 cover by The Rolling Stones.

Departure featured a span of styles, all quite polished and arranged for an indie artist's debut. A couple were left bare, but the opening track unfurled with a string quartet, another with Stu Kimball's (Bob Dylan) perfectly twangy lead sputtering out the most country licks for a non-country album, future Morphine member Dana Colley blowing staccato licks on some blurry take on Ska punk. All the colors she wanted like a pedal steel player that only the engineer Ducky Carlisle knew: an older man who came in with Lucky Strikes rolled up in his shirt sleeve near his shoulder, paid with a 6-pack of beer, never to be seen again.

Departure announced Geltman's arrival into the Boston music scene and beyond. Departure landed on two local critics top 10 lists for the year in music and received consistent positive reviews.

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Up From Down

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No Power Steering

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