Beth Hart | Southern Brewers Festival | Chattanooga, Tennessee
Beth Hart has been down a long road�from the top of the charts to the lowest place you can be in life. And that journey has been reflected in every album she's released.
She leads you by the hand through her experiences, re-living every joy and weeping over every sorrow. You see it in her lyrics, you hear it in her music, and you feel it in every sweet sigh and every savage scream that's on every track she's ever made. Her edgy, no-non-sense approach to her art is what has made her truly one-of-a-kind.
As it happens to all true survivors, ultimately, life revealed itself to Beth and now she's arrived at the place she's always dreamed of: a place of love, spirituality and, most of all, contentment.
It wasn't always that way.
Her first album "Immortal", was full of the pomposity of rock cut with the agony of blues. From the time it was released, it had more going for it than most new artists can ever hope for. Three of music's superstar producers teamed up to make this album , each of them mesmerized by her raw, powerful voice. With the wealth of experience and credits that Hugh Padgham, David Foster and Mike Clink brought to the project, how could it fail to be anything other than USA multi-platinum? But Beth knew there was something missing. "We were too cocky and I didn't really know what I wanted. As good as the talent on the album was, it never captured the simple truth of our live performances."
Her 2nd album, "Screamin' For My Supper" put her back in the right direction. With techno-wizard producer Tal Herzberg producing this album with Beth, this album contained her huge hit, "L.A. Song" as well as "Delicious Surprise", which were both produced by Oliver Leiber. But, again, there was a critical ingredient missing, and, unfortunately for Beth, this time it was her health. "I was drinking and partying so much; I slowly started to go out of my mind," Beth recalls. "As good as an experience as it was working with Tal, and as many doors as 'L.A. Song' opened up for us, I wasn't together enough to enjoy the ride."
Her 3rd album, "Leave The Light On", also featured a wealth of talent. Producers Mike Bradford, Danny Saber as well as Oliver Leiber and E.T. Thorngren all had a hand in helping Beth craft this work. Beth had dropped out of sight for a while and this album helped her heal as she climbed out of that dark place. This album, more than any previous one, was intensely personal for Beth. "I was going back into a career that I had lost my mind pursuing. Now I felt a tremendous responsibility to be totally honest, because so many young girls had looked up to me throughout my career. I owed it to them to reveal the truth about what I had gone through and warn them about where that can take you."
After that experience, Beth was ready to "go live" again. A series of tours followed in Europe, primarily in Denmark and Holland . Beth is very grateful for having had that experience. "Those audiences brought my confidence back. They reminded me of the power of my music, of how it could reach out into the crowd and touch everyone in one way or another. I really loved those people, man, and I could feel their love coming back to me."
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"Beth Hart is quite simply, one of the finest singers I've ever heard. Period." Mike Bradford (Producer Kid Rock , Uncle Kracker)
"Beth Hart is the real deal. You know it from the first time you hear her." Oliver Leiber (Producer/Songwriter The Corrs, BBMak)
"Beth's got an awesome, one-of-a-kind voice. She's really something special. What I liked about Beth from the very first time I saw her perform was her intimacy and sincerity. It was like the audience was invited to hear her in her own living room." Danny Saber (Producer/Remixer The Rolling Stones, U2, David Bowie)
