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.
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
It ain’t hardcore Country by a long shot. But with it’s slide guitar and a bit of banjo wafting in and out, here and there, it’s close enough to win it’s seegar. Quite the hooky record; a joyful and ear-teasing treat of an arrangement and production.
I got into a debate with meself about which to add first, this one or Eden’s Edge. They’re both voiced by Young Country women and both songs are about the same thing; seeing some new sexy guy and gettin’ hit with the lightenin’ bolt. Finally, I decided one’s up and one’s medium tempo and they … Read more
Not my personal favorite of all the potential radio singles remaining on this superb album. Two beer drinkin’ songs in a row is kinda’, what’s the word? Lame? But it should be clear to all ears that it’s an easy Top 10, probably Top 5.
In the early 90’s, the phrase TurboTwang was coined and applied to Garth and Brooks & Dunn and others in the New Hot Country movement. They were very fresh and exciting. We’ve got some of that energy being revived now. Eric Church’s album is but one of several good examples. This record’s certainly got some … Read more
If this ain’t a smash, if this ain’t a #1 song, I’ll eat my hat and yours, too. It’s one’a them rare perfect Country records that resonates within the heart and soul. Every young woman goes into marriage thinking she can make that bad boy better, can change him, can save him from himself. Sometimes … Read more