Steve Sad. I can’t imagine being more disappointed. I was all primed, eager for some great new monster hit to be the first release on his new label. He’s had plenty of time to work on new music, waiting for lawyers to work out his divorce from Curb. He signs with the very hot label, one … Read more
Maybe this was selected as the next single because it has the phrase “escape to the radio” in the opening lyric and got them thinkin’ that’d get it a leg up in the airplay race. And maybe this’ll be a radio hit. I hope it is ’cause the guy is good. But, geeze, there are … Read more
Yes, a NEW Waylon record. He’d recorded about a dozen tracks just before he passed on. They weren’t finished and I guess they’ve just been kinda sittin’ in the vault for the past 10 years. His partner Robbie Turner has been sprucing them up, hopefully to Waylon’s specs and the album is due in September. … Read more
Ok, I can’t do it out of the box and then have TWO anti-Country productions by her in Currents at the same time. And if I put it on the list in a future update, it will be with serious misgivings and apprehension. This is a really fine POP/Disco record, with the drum machine, a … Read more
This is probably the most admired band that’s never had a Top 10 single (three Top 10 albums, though). They were together 14 years, broke up in ’03, got back together last year and with Raul Malo’s soaring vocals and tight playing they sound as good as ever. Maybe better with age, even. Their first … Read more
Well, the on-record personae can’t get any worse than was demonstrated in “Gunpowder and Lead”, where she was waiting in the dark to shotgun the guy when he got home from cheatin’, but here she is with another trashy girl narrative. In this one she’s promoting drunken driving and dangerous drunken driving at that…she wants … Read more
As per usual, there are three other tracks on the album I’d prefer to have as radio singles before this one. Not that there’s anything wrong with this record, now. The vocal work is gorgeous, the production slick. The uneventful hook doesn’t stick with me, though.
It’s moved into the Top 20 now and my concerns about it sounding exactly like a Lady A knock-off are unfounded. Well, not that it doesn’t, but that it’s of no matter. The record is very fine and I should’a known better than to over-think it.
It hit my desk middle of last month and it’s a peach, ripe with radio singles and killer hooks. “Up All Night” the title track is about not going home after the date, just keeping the groove alive. “Drive Me Crazy” is the lead-off track and was certainly the best choice of the collection for … Read more
Ok, I click the button to hear it the first time and it starts out with this weird strange sound, and I’m thinkin’ What the heck is this? Viet Namese? And the beat starts, real slinky-like. Then she starts singing, voice all echo-y, like maybe she’s in that stairwell Elvis stood in to record a … Read more