Grace Pool

Although critics generally had nice things to say about upstate New York alterna-folkies Grace Pool, the quartet was done a disservice by the immediate and myopic comparison to 10,000 Maniacs that invariably showed up somewhere in every feature and review. With their shared home, the largely acoustic instrumentation, and the fact that both bands had female lead singers, Grace Pool and 10,000 Maniacs had almost nothing at all in common. In many ways, Grace Pool was the superior act, as Elly Brown's lyrics avoided the preciousness of Natalie Merchant's, and Bob Riley's keyboard-...