Please VOTE online by clicking the link at the bottom of this email. I’ve been nominated for Best American Roots Female Vocalist!
Hey, Everybody! Yesterday, we rolled into Manhattan around mid-afternoon after a sunny, breezy weekend in rural Pennsylvania where I performed Friday night to a packed house at the Godfrey Daniels Theater in the quaint little town of Bethlehem. Thanks to all of you who joined the email list, and “welcome.” I enjoyed meeting you and visiting with you after the show, and I hope that you’re enjoying the CD’s, too.
Tonight (Monday, July 18) I’ll be playing in Greenwich Village at a great little spot called Gizzi’s, where I debuted last month. I really like this place, as it has the “feel” of New York the way one would imagine it to be. It’s a diverse line up of acts, including jazz and poetry, and I go on from 7:30 – 8:15 p.m. The address is 16 W. 8th Street, New York, NY 10011, and there’s a link on the calendar page at www.glennabell.com. I hope some of you in NYC can make it out. It's a comfortable venue where we'd have a chance to catch up for a few minutes after my set.
Also, I’d like to ask everyone to take a look at an impressive new online magazine devoted to all that is “Americana” music, The Alternate Root, whose readers have nominated me for Best American Roots Female Vocalist, along with the likes of Mavis Staples and Wanda Jackson! I’m honored to find myself placed amongst such established singers on this list, and I would appreciate it if you could set aside a few minutes of your time to vote for me at the link at the bottom of this email. When you click on it, you will see some brief directions on the upper right hand side of the page. They ask you to set up an account, so I tried it, and it’s actually very easy. They don’t ask for any personal information, and it takes only a few seconds.
I was also pleasantly surprised to see my friend Jimmy Pizzitola’s album, Poet On The Run, has been nominated for Best American Roots Debut Album. I can genuinely say that it is one of my favorite records. Jimmy is a gifted singer-songwriter, and he produced, engineered, and performed every part on the album out at his family’s ranch in Stafford, Texas surrounded by many decades of colorful family history and Texas memorabilia. The recording’s simple charm, minimal backing, and earnest delivery of substantial lyrics really grabs me and takes me back to a time when American songwriting was burgeoning. So I hope that you’ll vote for Jimmy, too. I think the world could use more albums like Poet On The Run. You can listen to Jimmy's songs by clicking the “play” icon at the top of http://www.poetontherun.net/?section=links and VOTE AT:
http://www.thealternateroot.com/alternate-root-weekly-features/readers-choice-poll
Y’all come!