EP Of The Week

"På titelspåret på Ashley E Nortons nya EP, 'The Red Guitar', är det texten som sticker ut, liksom huvud objektets mycket tilltalande stämma. Övriga tre låtar är nya versioner av tidigare skivspår, som också framförs till enkelt gitarrkomp. Hur som helst visar denna amerikanska att hon är en fullfjädrad artist och att hon med engagemang, inlevelse och en stark röst, bjuder på toner som är hämtade från den högre skolan."

- Torbjörn Berlin / Berlin Calling -

"Ashley E Norton spelar här en akustisk folkmusik, inramad med en stark röst som kanske avviker lite från hennes vanliga musikaliska tänkande. Här är det fyra poetiska och humanistiska sånger som bygger upp ett fint berättat narrativ i min anteckningsbok."

- Micheles Kindh / Blaskan -

"Ashley E Norton returns with a follow up acoustic EP release after her successful americana album, 'Call Of The Void', which sat on the Euro Americana Chart for months with glowing reviews. She describes 'The Red Guitar' as one of the most important songs she’s written to date, inspired by Paula Stykel Wiessner, who grew up in Paleis Het Loo in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands."

- Kenneth Bremer / Blue Desert -

"The title track, 'The Red Guitar', is good with dramatic vocals and playing that never gets weighed down or pompous. However, it doesn’t establish the 'whole' in an immediate manner. One would have to listen to the 4 songs a few times to appreciate the thread of the story being told or listen to 'The Red Guitar' alone intently and read Tim’s story."

- John Apice / Americana Highways -

"For the last 5 years, Ashley E Norton Norton has been writing a new song every week and posting it to Patreon for just $5 a month. The sign of a prolific artist at the very top of her game. This EP does everything to continue her interesting upward direction."

- Paul McGee / Lonesome Highway -

"The title track on Ashley E Norton's new EP was inspired by Paula Stykel Wiessner who grew up in the Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation. The building converted into a hospital for wounded soldiers, in her living room, behind a heavy curtain, was a red guitar. Never touched and never played, concealed inside was a radio transceiver that her father Paul, Housemaster of the Palace Het Loo, used to pass information to the Dutch resistance, the spire at the local orphanage concealing a radio antenna. The guitar disappeared shortly before the war ended, its fate unknown, but its story and the bravery of Paula’s father live on in the song. The EP also includes 3 live in the studio acoustic versions of songs from Norton’s previous albums."

- Mike Davies / Folking -

"Barely one year after the release of her excellent album 'Call Of The Void', California based singer songwriter Ashley E Norton is presenting an EP called 'The Red Guitar'. In the title-track she is telling the amazing story of a guitar that contained an hidden radio transmitter which during the second world war was used to save the lives of many Dutch Jews from the Nazi occupiers in Holland. Furthermore Ashley also brings acoustic versions from 3 of her older songs."

- Valére Sampermans / Rootstime -

"'The Red Guitar', as a release, reminds me of some older folk releases, where the thematic relevance, along with the convincing interpretation of the author, makes the material inspiring and compelling."

- Branimir Lokner / Time Machine Music -