Beth Scalet: 8th Annual Program – Cover Song IMA Nominee
Contact: Beth Scalet9519 Belleview Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64114
816-943-6699
bethscalet (at) yahoo.com
www.bethscalet.com
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On March, 2008 Beth was inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame. To celebrate, she gathered songs from her previous CD releases and had them remastered to compile “Body of Work: The Best of Beth Scalet.”
She has won numerous awards as a songwriter, from the Billboard Song Contest (three times), the American Song Festival (3 times), and the American Songwriter’s Association. She has performed actively for over 30 years, bringing a mixture of original songs and select songs by others to audiences throughout the country. She figures she has played several thousand shows in her long career.
Her writing ranges from deep emotion to high wit, and her subject matter covers everything from traditional blues themes to vignettes about love and life in the new world to issues of concern to women in particular and humans in general — domestic violence, eating disorders, addictive behaviors, homelessness — and she handles them all with taste and insight. In short, Beth’s versatility makes her difficult to pigeonhole. Beth accompanies herself on guitar and harmonica. Her unique fingerpicking style, bluesy voice, and range of material have endeared her to audiences in the Midwest and across the country.
She has been featured as the opening act with such greats as Billy Joel, Manfred Mann, Arlo Guthrie, Richard Thompson, Steve Goodman, Bill Monroe, Koko Taylor, and many others.
In 1981 she released “It’s A Living . . . ” (on vinyl) and in 1987 “Blues in Paradise” (on cassette). Both have been re-released on CD. In 2000 the all-original “Taking the Cure” was released.
Beth is a respected blues singer and harmonica player, and a talented writer of blues songs, as witnessed by her “Blues in Paradise” release. It showcases influences from R&B to Chicago-style to gospel.
Beth has long had a local reputation as a consummate interpreter of Bob Dylan’s songs, and in 2002 she released “Beth Loves Bob,” a tribute album that has been well-received by Dylan fans from all over.
Instrumentation
Beth Scalet, acoustic guitar, vocals, and harmonica, songwriter
Discography
It’s a Living . . . (J-bird Records)
Blues in Paradise (J-bird Records) (out of print)
Taking the Cure (marais des cygnes recordings)
Beth Loves Bob: The Songs of Bob Dylan (marais des cygnes recordings)
Blues in Paradise – Anniversary Edition (marais des cygnes recordings)
Roadwork: The Blues & Everything Else (marais des cygnes recordings)
Body of Work: The Best of Beth Scalet