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NEW ARTICLE ON HAIGHT STREET MUSIC NEWS by DON ATERS CLICK HERE : haightstreetmusicnews.com/HeidiLittle.html
Changin Times - Heidi’s Song During the apex of the musical revolution, psychedelia and amidst the epicenter of hippiedom in San Francisco, there were but a few chosen women who could be the focal point of a rock n’ roll band. Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Lydia Pense, Cold Blood, Annie Sampson of Stoneground, Tracy Nelson, Mother Earth & my friend Nancy Nevins of Sweetwater. They were provocative, endearing and daring, essential to the musical mantra of the era. Let’s fast forward to contemporary women of the day & enter Heidi Little and what defines an artist of today. The barometer is no longer the sales of albums or CD’s but more pertinent is exposure to the masses & subsequent live performances. “No More War”, “Shine”, “Butterfly”, “Living On A Prayer” are but a few crafted songs of the heart, reminiscent of sixties Laurel Canyon, once the Mecca for musical dreams.  . Photo Stephanie M. Joseph~Carparelli S4 The traits of yesteryear have given way to a more polished approach although charisma & visual allure are essential predicated on the videos of today’s minstrels and divas of the chosen art form. Crowd rapport, tunes feasible of transcending the decades and from the heart define Heidi as an emerging chanteuse of today’s marketable crooners and the timing is ideal. Spring is in bloom, festivals abound & exposure the needed mandate so that the masses can become aware of her ability. Memories are a great thing, legendary venues flash through my mind on a daily basis, .e., The Fillmores, Winterland, The Matrix, The Ark, Longshoreman’s Hall but living in the past becomes a detriment if one lives in the haze of glory past so we move along to those who can construct neoteric memories and Heidi Little seems capable of carrying that torch. The culmination of rock n’ roll, a tinge of folk rock and a touch of the baroque music of the mountains could allow her to ascend the ladder of rock & roll royalty and in a time of a much needed voice of the angels, we should all be grateful for the gifts she brings. An antiquated adage comes to mind as we are a country of faded glory & it goes as follows, “You never know what you had until it’s gone”. I have seen them all, knew most as friends of a defiant generation and I suspect patterned my life to those we most admired and emulated but it’s time for a change and Heidi could become the chosen one for a genre in serious need of a savior in song. As children of the sixties we united as one despite the corruption & violence of the day, nothing has changed. The escape of today’s psycho babbling is in the voice of Heidi Little so, off your ass & on your feet, she will become what once was only if we can see the beauty of the songs and the vitality of a live performance. The magic remains in all of us. Cheers Don Aters - 2011 Don Aters is a world famous photographer and historian of the rock culture. Click on the picture below for more great works.
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