It has been proven true over and over again that age is irrelevant when it comes to Australian country music artists. An emerging artist can be sixteen or sixty, and with the CMAA Academy offering the Junior Academy the teenagers are just as likely to be accomplished as older artists. Queensland singer-songwriter Cassi Marie is seventeen but she’s already studied with artists such as Amber Lawrence, Lyn Bowtell and Ashleigh Dallas, and that experience shows. The four songs on her new EP, Pieces of My Heart, are country-pop gems. Cassi Marie’s voice has a lovely clean tone that enables us to hear the emotion behind and meaning of her lyrics. There is bittersweetness and poignancy on these songs that can’t be taught – it has to come from within the artist.
The EP was produced by Bill Chambers and mixed by Nash Chambers, and while it’s always good to have such heavyweights in the studio, the songs and their singer have to be good in order for the EP to shine, and this EP is a beautiful shiny introduction to this artist.
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