Adam Labeaux, Live at Crazy Wisdom

Crazy Wisdom Bookstore hosts Adam Labeaux, Friday, August 7th, at 7:30pm.
With more than three decades devoted to his craft, Adam Labeaux has established an indelible legacy within the Michigan music scene. His music is deeply rooted in folk, classic rock, funk, pop, and soul. “I’ve always gravitated towards balladeers and melody,” he says. “I’d rather hear somebody sing something sweet.”

Labeaux himself has an astonishing range and a voice as quick-tongued as it is rich with feeling. By turns playful and plaintive, triumphant and mournful, evocative and mercurial, sensual and restrained, Labeaux’s songs are full of melodic surprises. At every moment, he resists cliché, striving towards a relentless but upbeat authenticity in songs full of longing and hope.
John Bommarito, host of the podcast/playlist Acoustic Alternatives, had this to say about Brave Face: “With equal parts ‘the sounds of today’ and ‘the classic sounds of the 70’s & 80’s pop,’ Labeaux has a strong new release on his hands. [The album] had me feeling nostalgic for the radio I listened to as a kid.”