"Leigh has an Elvis thing goin' on when she sings."....... "Distinctive and powerful vocals deliver haunting, provocative lyrics amidst a landscape of soul-stirring, ass-shaking grooves." -Michael Farr.
"She's got the raspy voice of an early Cher, and a Nancy Sinatra attitude to boot." -Take 5
"Glass is a heartbroken, blues-infected troubadour, using her acid-etched voice to weave tales of loss, lament and love." -Mountain Xpress......
Asheville-based blues troubadour Leigh Glass put the first lineup of her band together in 2003, but her own musical history goes back much farther. "I took piano lessons when I was little...but it didn't stick," she laughs. With deep roots in Western North Carolina -- her family is from Bethel (Cold Mountain) in Haywood County -- she proudly notes her musical pedigree. "My great aunts and uncles and my grandfather were big-time bluegrassers; in the 1940s they played in the Carpenter Family Band, and they performed in Asheville at the venue that was here before the Civic Center was built.
For herself, Leigh didn't pick up the guitar until about ten years ago ("I decided I needed an instrument I could take around with me," she 
quips). Leigh's original songs are built upon an electric blues musical foundation, with healthy ladles of country (and country-blues) influences added. A list of her musical heroes covers a wide spectrum of American artists and genres: Ann Wilson (rock), Gillian Welch (Americana), Tina Turner (blues and soul), Emmylou Harris (country) and Leontyne Price (opera). Leigh's style distills all of these and more into the blues idiom, but her lyrics are always prominent in the mix.
In 2007, the band released their CD The Saints and the Creole Angel. Leigh produced and wrote all of the songs.
Leigh offers, "My songs are all stories that run the gamut of emotions and characters." Though it wasn't planned this way, Leigh observes that "seven of the new tunes are about men -- or told from the viewpoint of male characters! And," as Leigh notes, "I'm a female." Yet these are not your standard love-gone-wrong tunes; the lyrics chart more of a Southern Gothic path.
Not only is she an accomplished songwriter, she is an incredible musician and singer. Leigh has a way with the crowd. Bold and free in spirit, she has the power and finesse of an amazing soulful and rocking voice that brings an overwhelming gift of discovery to her songs. The Leigh Glass Band formed in 2003. They have a huge following the southeast. She is the lead singer and plays rhythm guitar.
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