New Jersey Stage January 2015 | Page 42

New Jersey Stage recently spoke
with Mansfield about the new
release and what took her so
long to finally have a record of
her own, a record that was expertly produced by Rob Tanico,
a long-time member of the Jersey Shore music scene with such
bands as Mr. Reality and Highway 9.

Rob (Tanico) picked up on that
vibe in my music. It’s not in every song, but in quite a lot of
them. I’ve never said I have a
sixties vibe, but I had one record when I was little. It was a
K-Tel record of the British Invasion and it contained The Yardbirds, Cream, and a lot of songs
and artists who had that whole
sound. I didn’t have a lot of reThe record starts off with a discords, so I listened to that thing
tinctive sixties vibe that reminds a hundred million times. And
me of The Yardbirds.
when I first started playing gui-

© John Posada

New Jersey Stage

January 2015

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