Charlotte Martin
Millennium Harvest House Hotel, Boulder, CO..... Martin was a former Miss Teen USA contestant representing Illinois in the mid-1990s, but she was also a talented singer and pianist. Her first album with real distribution, On Your Shore , was released a few days after this performance, but I had already heard a pre-release copy of it. She did a worthwhile cover of the Stones' "Wild Horses" on the album and her album's first single "Every Time It Rains" was decent, but she came across as Tori Amos lite ("Wild Horses" sounded like a Tori soundalike recording). She didn't help her case at this showcase performance for a radio convention.There were some people talking at the back of the hotel courtyard/event space where the performance took place, and it really seemed to throw Martin off her game. She asked the crowd to be quiet at one point, but when that didn't work, she got pouty and started blowing air through pursed lips so that it ruffled ...