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Connecticut singer/songwriter, Heather Fay started out with the dream of creating the perfect mix tape. The implausibility of this quest didn't hit her until years later while looking at her acoustic guitar and realizing that if she wanted the perfect...

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May 2010 Lilith Local Talent Search: Hartford

Top 40 in Alternative Country, January 2012

Top 40 in Folk, February 2011

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Heather Fay, Scrape Knee’d Girl by The New Haven Advocate
Singer-songwriter Fay delivers a modestly tuneful, smartly-arranged and heartfelt set of 10 songs here. The modesty in question isn’t a comment on her talent — she possesses a strong, clear voice, and can use it to convey a broad range of emotions; and her songs themselves, which fit into the rootsier end of the pop-rock spectrum, are melodically graceful (the middle section of the album is particularly confident and hooky) but her delivery feels subtle and somehow private. Eric Lichter’s analog production gives the songs warmth, and his multi-instrumental contributions create an ebb and flow with plenty of ear-catching passages. Not only is there more going on here than one might first notice, the songs are concise in their composition, even the slower ballads (and the set does tip towards mellow, steady-tempoed songs). One wishes she showed off more, or made all the choruses pop out the way she can. But the private-feeling approach still suits Fay’s direct lyrics and melodies.

Heather Fay - Scrape Knee'd Girl 2009 by Wildy's World.com
Heather Fay started out with the dream of creating the perfect mix tape. The implausibility of this quest didn't hit her until years later while looking at her Alvarez acoustic and realizing that if she wanted the perfect mix tape she'd have to write some of it herself. Scrape Knee'd Girl is the outgrowth of that realization; an album of songs about the imperfections and wrong turns on life's path and the emotional cost of living through both right and wrong decisions. The title and artwork represent the "perfectly imperfect" state we live in, the bumps and bruises we acquire, and the tales Fay spins on Scrape Knee'd Girl sing to the very part in each of us that crave to be accepted, warts and all. Heather Fay dabbles in the singer/songwriter pastiche of Carly Simon and Joni Mitchell and adds in a twist of Americana, Country Blues and Rock, depending on the song. Her voice is clear and strong and plain-spoken; an every woman's voice that connects to the listener instantly and holds your attention. There's an emotional honesty that is unmistakable, with Fay delving into psychologically intimate subjects and moments from the experience of her protagonist... The music is wonderfully constructed, sticking primarily with a rich Americana sound that could pass for Country or Folk with a sprinkling of Rock thrown in...Make sure you check out Scrape Knee'd Girl. It's worth the time.

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