Deni Bonet Trio - Acoustic at Quad Studio.mp4

When the blues get you down, it's time to turn to the girl with the blue violin.

That's Deni Bonet, the acclaimed singer, songwriter and violinist behind the brand-new, intentionally-uplifting album, It's All Good. Known to many for her work with such stars as Cyndi Lauper, R.E.M., Sarah McLachlan, Robyn Hitchcock, and many others, Bonet's third solo release is a blast of energy and enthusiasm, tonic for the troubled soul.

"If you're blue, instead of making yourself bluer, you should perk yourself out of it," says Bonet. "I hope if people are feeling down, they'll say, 'I want to put on Deni's record'. Because I really want it to be something that can help people smile."

On It's All Good, Bonet is joined by such high-profile collaborators as R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Fred Schneider of The B-52s, John Wesley Harding, ex-Wings drummer Steve Holley, Young Fresh Fellow/R.E.M. associate Scott McCaughey, and even Broadway star Mary Testa. She also turned to a well-known name -- former Bongo and baroque pop savant Richard Barone -- to produce the album.

Barone's distinctive vocal harmonies help lift disc-opener "Girl Lover," an infectious, tongue-in-cheek ode to "somebody famous whose name I can't tell you, or I'd get sued," confesses Bonet with a chuckle. Meanwhile, erstwhile B-52 Fred Schneider adds his inimitable interjections to "Girl Party," a modern-day "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun."

But a few songs on It's All Good remind us that we often have to laugh to keep from crying. "Safety Date" is a dark-hued ode to those girls who have to play second-best, featuring R.E.M.'s Peter Buck on 12-string guitar. And the title track actually chronicles the end of an affair, becoming an anthem that defies us not to sing out our heartache.

A Northern Virginia native, Bonet was an original member of the house band for the National Public Radio show Mountain Stage. She next worked with Robyn Hitchcock, appearing on the album Moss Elixir and touring the world. Relocating to New York, she released her 2001 full-length debut, Bigger Is Always Better, which All Music Guide called "a glorious, intelligent hookfest."

Bonet also started her own cable TV show, Duets With Deni, and continued as an in-demand session player, making appearances on The Today Show and Late Night With Conan O'Brien. Her second solo album, 2006's Last Girl on Earth, won praise from The Wall Street Journal and Time Out New York, which declared, "She could be huge."

For a dose of instant uplift in sobering times, there's now plenty of Bonet to offer - on disc, on download, and live. "I had a vision with this record," Bonet says, "and now I hope I can make other people feel good, too." If you lose sight of the truth that It's All Good, she's not far away with a reminder.

This video was filmed in 2011 at Quad Studio in NYC before a live audience. It features Deni Bonet, Jodelle and Austin Donohue.

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[fadetored1985]

Amazing

[123rolyan]

Very nice, like the acoustic trio lineup.

[rskurow]

One fiddler to another, very nice.