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Recently Released: Of Armor and Old Lies: Odyssey Songs, Volume 1:
Charlene DiCalogero doesn’t look like a Homeric bard. The puckish singer-songwriter, a seasoned veteran of the folk and coffeehouse scene, seems thoroughly contemporary — not the person you would expect to give voice to the gods, monsters, and storm-tossed heroes of ancient Greece.
But as Homer knew well, appearances can be deceiving. In seven original songs on her debut release, Of Armor and Old Lies: Odyssey Songs, Volume 1, Charlene takes the familiar tales of Odysseus’ ten-year journey home from the Trojan War — the subject of countless adventure films and the bane of many a glassy-eyed college freshman — and recrafts them as compellingly sensuous folk songs. read more...
