(Re-released
in 2004 under her own label "Deeva Records")...
House of Secrets brings
us a very intimate Leigh Harris, artfully breathing
life into a
program of wildly various selections including songs
by Doc Pomus, Brian Wilson, Jagger-Richards and Ray
Davies. Supported by a pool of exceptionally sympathetic
musicians, Harris stamps each performance with her
own personality. There are fine originals by John
Magnie and Glenn Patscha, two excellent Harris compositions
(‘Telephone Sleeping in My Bed" and "Crazy
Mirrors"), and an exquisite reading of "Paint
This Town" in a duet with pianist Joshua Paxton.
"This
project kind of started out as a whole other idea
of what I wanted the record to be. I was gonna record
just my favorite bar tunes, real intimate, and I was
going to call it After Hours. Then Magnie played ‘Like
a Ghost’ for me on piano, and I wanted to record
it. Then everything changed...it just got rounder
and rounder and I started seeking other material."
- John Sinclair