Singer-songwriter Teressa Wilcox brings more moxie to the music on her latest album, “Big Black Heart.”
Teressa Wilcox
Posted inMusic
The Coffey achiever
Parked beneath an ever-present chapeau, mild-mannered Nate Coffey is a superhero without the cape and tights under his street clothes. Despite his encyclopedic knowledge of the guitar, bass, and more, this unassuming cat is steeped in modesty. He plays loud but isn’t what you’d call a boisterous person. He plays his own guitar but doesn’t […]
Posted inMusic
Teressa Wilcox
All those self-appointed divas, overwrought soul sisters, affected caterwaulers, and auto-tuned tarts ain’t got nothin’ on Rochester’s Teressa Wilcox. It would seem everyone who parks themselves in front of a mic with a dream in their heart and a song on their lips tries for honesty, raw emotion, and energy. But it’s that effort — […]
Posted inSpecial Sections
Frank reviews Teressa Wilcox Band, Violet Mary, the Heroic Enthusiasts, and The Campbell Brothers
I’ve been going to see Teressa Wilcox since she was a teenage chick with a pick. And her voice’s timbre has always taken a back seat to her gentle phrasing. But not tonight, Jack. Homegirl was on the Gibbs Street Stage just a-belting it out. And her band ratcheted it up to help serve Wilcox’s […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
Chicks with picks
You see a young girl with a guitar perched on a stool on a makeshift stage in a dimly lit coffee house, and you just know what’s going to happen next, right? There’ll be some left-wing caterwauling, a litany of boy-bashing rhetoric over three or four well-worn guitar chords, and plenty of overwrought passion and […]
