KEELY BURNS, NEVER STUCK IN ONE PLACE

Since Keely Burn’s last record, Not My Masterpiece, there seems to be a lot of growth, both as a person and an artist. So it’s a fitting title to the album: Never Stuck In One Place, which surfaces on the record, as well, in an interesting way. Keely, who started creating music when she was inspired by Peter Gabriel and Joni Mitchell at age 14, is perfecting her craft and adding to musical history, with her vocal-rich, lyrically-introspective music that incorporates funk at times and folk at others.

“Yeah, it’s gonna sound really great with the band, too,” Keely says in the final spoken track (“This is not the hidden track,”) and her new band, The Tea Lights, made up of Eliza Frances on backing vocals, Ryan Irby on guitar, Alonzo Jefferson on drums, and Doc Thomas on bass, work to increase the intensity of the spotlight on Keely’s bold and vulnerable music. The first number, with its funky horns by The Hopewell Horns (RaShawd Simmons on trumpet and Stephen Mills on saxophone), tells the story of how Keely is gonna make a love interest “Mine.”