mainly because she's so much more of a singer
she is hella a singer
i must admit i always thought that lee ann womack was lee ann rimes who got married
― j., Wednesday, 8 October 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
Came across this interview with Frank Liddell (Womack's husband and producer; also produced all of Miranda's albums):
http://www.rama-info.com/home/producers/13/bio1_text.html
Has some really great little nuggets, including:
"I love records. Going to a live event doesn’t speak to me the way a record does. I never got to see the Beatles live, but I’ve seen footage and it’s not Rubber Sole (sic) and it’s not Revolver."
"If somebody who is good enough to write Crazy can cut an outside song, then don’t walk into this town and say; “I’m too good for outside songs.” "
― Indexed, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
^ fuck yeah ppl this shit is so good, god bless ilm
http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-CX113_womack_E_20140521230540.jpg
― j., Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
I like the Womack a great deal but the songs aren't as memorable as There's More Where That Came From's, in the middle stretch particularly.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
and that album was one of the best of the '00s
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
welp i don't need them to be as memorable as that because i don't remember that, i only need to play the record
― j., Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
you haven't heard There's More...? Oh man -- you're lucky. Get to it!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
well now it sounds like you're advising me to ruin the joy of a new record by listening to an older one!
― j., Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
Call it a complementary listening experience.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
well i'm sold on this record. btw beyond miranda lambert and this, which are the best country albums of the year? because i haven't grasped what i should be seeking out yet.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
The Angaleena Presley does hold up. Platinum looks like my album of the year. I wasn't crazy about Brantley Gilbert's album but when it shows up on my phone I'll play it. I've got more singles I love than albums.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
The Willie Nelson ain't bad either
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
brantley gilbert was tolerable a few years ago but i can't stand listening to his steroidal frat bro shtick or fake accent anymore
― dyl, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, October 8, 2014 4:24 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Cream of the crop:Lee Ann WomackLydia LovelessJason EadyMiranda Lambert
Others worth a listen:Kelly Willis & Bruce RobisonSturgill SimpsonSunny SweeneyCody JohnsonAndrew Bird (Handsome Family covers record that hasn't gotten nearly enough attention)
― Indexed, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
oh yes on Lydia Loveless and Willis-Robison
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
Agree on Loveless, Lambert & Womack (now there's a trio), Simpson & Sturgill about half-good so far, though I'll listen more to both, ditto Angeleeana or however the fuck you spell it: she's kinda the George Harrison of Pistol Annies: religious, though non-charismatic, then again vocals are also n-c, and not as much a guitarist as George, though both have seen some shit and have senses of humor--but "Dry County Blues" and "Pain Pills" could sound so much better on Pistol Annies (or Womack, or Loveless, or) albums; here, with slightly generic vocals, kinda like Justified outtakes. Still, these, and "Life of the Party," and several others may well grown on me; can't dismiss her.Nelson album's got a few good songs, but their charm is affected by the querulous ol' context (c'mon Willie, you're gonna give us geezers an even worse name).Crowell, Carlene, Delines, Amy LaVere sets I mentioned up thread still good; need to check Eady, Cody Johnson, Lydia's recent tourmate Cody Branan (thumbs up from Hoos), Willis & Robison. And Tim McGraw. Others??
― dow, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
I should also listen again to Eric Church. And Lady Antebellum. Best new artist I've heard: Elise Davis, also mentioned upthread.
― dow, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
Ha, Simpson & Sturgill, meant Sweeney & Simpson.
― dow, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
eric paslay's album is nice
it's on spotify
"less than whole" is my fave. it is gloriously dramatic, as is "deep as it is wide"and "friday night" is so much fun. those banjos and fiddles at the beginning <3
― uberweiss, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
GO ON FORGIVE YOURSELFGO ON FORGIVE YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― uberweiss, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
Agreed that "Less Than Whole" is really well done. I actually preferred the original version of "Friday Night" that Lady Antebellum did, but the song is undeniable. Paslay has the unfortunate tendency to remind of Josh Groban, but some of his stuff just works.
Have you guys heard Emily West's "Made for the Radio"? Pretty incredible take on the industry/labels. Here's the chorus:
"I don’t sing my songs/ in hundred story buildings/ for dying men in business suits/ with vacant black hole hearts/ fucking the next star/ cause I won’t go on stage/ lit up on amphetamines/ singing ripped off melodies/ while I fall apart/ I’m a one woman show/ and I wasn’t made for the radio."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FecMalBNq8
― Indexed, Thursday, 9 October 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Must check her, thanks! "Go on, forgive yourself" hopefully heard/sung by Nashville series' closeted Hat star, someday, some way. Oh yeah, Top Ten prospects also include:Finally got to Mary Gauthier's Trouble and Love: breakup and recovery and then some--though she claims (in interviews) to be through with romantic love, realizing she just wasn't made for it, and maybe vice versa, and though (in song) she does demonstrate "How You Learn To Live Alone," that's a co-write with Gretchen Peters (perfectly placed on Nashville the TV series to boot):another example of how she's regrouping, realigning her musical and emotional resources, into sweet unpretentious forging on, with "Worthy" the tiny turning point on a dime: "ashes into flame"--sure, why not, rewind is no great leap of imagination---once *something* provides the key, but then, you've already got to be unlocked, for creativity to do its mysterious thing, whatever the process (obviously she's a vet, a pro, almost slipping into solemn folk-country soap opera at times, but usually not: "Oh Soul" does have a choked-up male vocal shadow, and yeah she's at the crossroads and ready for repentence, but does she have to "pray at the grave of Robert Johnson"? Maybe so, considering the better lines). One of the year's best.
― dow, Tuesday, June 24, 2014 11:02 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
as put it on Twitter:
@0wlred Nville contributor Mary Gauthier's new CD barely allows me to multitask--amazing (she sounds amazed too)
― dow, Thursday, 9 October 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
@0wlred
@brohamand @leeannwomack @notFrankLiddell And y not, say, Womack w Pistol Annies, showing Travellng Wilburys how 2 do it, sons....?
― dow, Thursday, 9 October 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of Nashville series, been thinking that on some level the show itself, the runners maybe, seemed hype-resistant, like most of the characters are, so there can be a sense of strain, of overtaxed will power in the ooowee sensationalism. Just now saw this: T-Bone B. on leaving as music director (and his wife is the creator and runner, at least officially): http://vult.re/1sm5jZS
― dow, Thursday, 9 October 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
One more probly for Top Ten:
The aforementioned Nikki Lane's current album, All Or Nothin' is about a rowdy gal who sometimes quietly busts her partner in luv crime---gotta keep honor among thieves, after all. Pretty confident, though not invulnerable, either way, and suggests (what may have actually happened, for all I know) Wanda Jackson keeping her 50s edge and losing the hopefully imposed late tearjerkers in the mid-60s, demonstrating, as Buck Owens did, how country could adapt to the Beatles, (and vice versa, via covers, the influence of Everlys harmonies, and even L-McC's "I've Just Seen A Face"). Which of course is something Dwight Yoakam's returned to over the years, incl Three Pears, but it seems more of a female tradition, thinking of, say, Those Darlins, Holly Golightly, or that album of Elizabeth McQueen pub-rock covers(yeah, but sounded mid-60s too, as pub-rock could in the mid=70s), discussed several Rolling Countrys ago.Though the closest comparison might be to the late great Amy Farris's Anyway, with a twangy slender voice unfazed by sometimes flamboyant production. Whether it'll keep seeming like more than a stylistic excercise remains to be seen, but it's good exercise at least. Go Babe!
― dow, Tuesday, August 12, 2014 8:54 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkAnd before that:
I like this song from Nikki Lane's new album, answering the musical question: "Nikki, when is the right time to do the wrong thing?" https://soundcloud.com/newwestrecords/nikki-lane-all-or-nothin-right/s-l71ivAlso digging the title song from her 2011 EP, which I was totally ignorant of!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlwzdQRfM-4
― dow, Friday, 10 October 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
Just now saw this: T-Bone B. on leaving as music director (and his wife is the creator and runner, at least officially): http://vult.re/1sm5jZS
yeah, t-bone left after the first season. and the show is, as he says, a soap opera. actually, he suggests it's half soap opera, half serious drama about musicians' lives, but that's being way generous. it's full-on soap opera, with all the pointlessness and WTF-ness that that implies. but i still enjoy the show quite a bit, because it's a soap opera about a world i care about, because a few of the characters are well-drawn (and well-acted), and the songwriting is consistently great, and has remained great even in t-bone's absence. buddy miller replaced him.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 10 October 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
I share yr. perspective, except sense of strain sometimes, soap-opera stuff can seem awkward--ratings falling while they have to compete with Scandal supernatural soaps, reality shows etc even on networks, much less cable, online---and not much music in this season's initial eps, so can't really compare Burnett's direction to Miller's yet. Hayden P. and Stella sisters (Rayna's daughters) are always good, with or without music, but others can get a bit tiresome when too much talk time.
― dow, Friday, 10 October 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
i really love the angaleena presley album on two listens. somehow hadn't realised just how smooth her voice is but i think it really fits the songs
― lex pretend, Friday, 10 October 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
Hoos pick Cory Branan + 9 more countryoid comers--good? http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/new-country-artists-2014-20141010/cory-branan-20141010
― dow, Friday, 10 October 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
and not much music in this season's initial eps, so can't really compare Burnett's direction to Miller's yet.
miller did all of last season. burnett quit at the end of season one.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 11 October 2014 01:17 (nine years ago) link
Ah, OK then! Last season was pretty good musically, so maybe this will make a little more room for performances. Another Cody show posted on bbchron, and this set does have "Hot Rod Lincoln" etc. (only two songs repeated from prev.; they knew a lotta songs):http://bbchron.blogspot.com/2014/10/commander-cody-and-his-lost-planet_8.html
― dow, Saturday, 11 October 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
Good Lee Ann interview:http://www.cmtedge.com/2014/10/08/lee-ann-womack-wants-to-make-you-feel-something/
― dow, Sunday, 12 October 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
She's had a great second act, hasn't she?
Whatever happened to Patty Loveless?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 October 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
No relation to Lydia, Patty according to wiki :
Over the past several years Loveless has made annual appearances in Nashville at the Grand Ole Opry (last appearance in March 2014) and goes on an annual country music cruise.[21] She no longer performs on a regular basis, spending her time with her husband and family at their home near Dallas, Georgia, northwest of Atlanta.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
Angaleena Presley live show covers:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/at-hill-country-angaleena-presley-seems-set-for-post-supergroup-success/2014/10/13/d40632b6-52e5-11e4-b86d-184ac281388d_story.html
Before calling it a night, Presley turned her band loose for fabulous reworkings of Neil Young’s “Love Is a Rose” and Merle Haggard’s “Workin’ Man Blues,” though the latter was done as ZZ Top might render a Haggard song.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
Hopefully not totally "post"--need more Pistol Annies!
― dow, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
growing to really love the angaleena presley album. i love how the solo annies are so different from both each other and pistol annies.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
been hearing eric church's "talladega" on the radio lately. i was getting kind of sick of his rock rebel posturing and/or shameless rewrites of his previous hits so i am pleased. still haven't bothered listening to the outsiders though.
― dyl, Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
Laura Cantrell's newest record was really underwhelming on first listen earlier this year, but I heard a radio interview with her this weekend that prompted a revisit, and boy am I glad. Nothing earth shattering, but a really lovely album in the vein of Tift Merritt, Zoe Muth, or even Aimee Mann. Read: inoffensive, pretty, adult contemporary country/folk rock.
― Indexed, Monday, 20 October 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ejDvenTsdk
Fell in love with this song/video last night. Her album from this year, The Avenues (which this song isn't on), is likewise pretty nice.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
It is! Though subtle-arty in unexpected ways; will take a little more getting used to (she's so confident though, she must be doing it right,eh?) Meanwhile,@leeannwomackQuebe Sisters @CityWineryNSH singin CindyWalkers Going Away Party..dont worry it wont be a loud party, dreams dont make noise when they die"Oh yeah. Willie Nelson's Cindy Walker collection is mighty fine too. Uh-oh, almost time for "Nashville" again.
― dow, Thursday, 30 October 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
sam hunt's album just came out, is he any good? he has written some songs i like but i am still unsure what kind of artist he is trying to be
― dyl, Thursday, 30 October 2014 04:57 (nine years ago) link
Chris Richards was just drooling over Sam Hunt in the Washington Post, so I am curious as well.
In the case of country music’s hot new thing, his hotness and newness are self-evident. But this thing he’s got going — this hybridization of country and hip-hop that’s so elegant against all odds — is deceptively phenomenal. Hunt’s major label debut is a lean 10 songs, each one of them fantastic, all of them poised to raise Nashville’s temperature more than just a few degrees.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/10/28/the-months-best-music-sam-hunt-dej-loaf-ex-hex-tinashe-and-more/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
It's on Spotify. "Lean": 10 songs in 38 minutes, and I 'ppreciate that, but still some of 'em are too long, like, of all things "Cop Car," where he's really sweating what her Daddy's gonna say, but still,"Somethin' in the blue lights' flashin'/Brought out the freedom in your eyes....I fell in love in the back of a cop car." Great first epiphany (and good build up to it),but, though he's always as earnest as Luke Bryant and Lee Brice, he lacks their corny flair, and this gets real solemn (and like Ah said, long).He's also trying to be real tasteful, and not disturb the vibe, but this does lead to some interesting speculation, like right off in "Take Your Time," he "doesn't wanta go home with you," whom he's just met; he just wants to do it right here, right now, or maybe over there in the shrubbery, going by his down-low manner. "Single For The Summer" has a nice hazy loose-ends atmosphere, and he's very broad-minded: likes him some "debutantes...and small-town runaways," better than collecting sea shells. Could see this as a radio hit and subject of creeped-out tweets/Slate articles."Ex To See": realizes he's being used as the tool of her revenge, but, though he's dismayed, is still riding around with her as song ends (not real safe, maybe, but understandable; I've been there). Turnaround, maybe on the same lady, in "Make You Miss Me," where earnestness is now butthurt and truly poignant, even got an actual girl singing along a little bit; he gets my sympathy, and could see this as another hit, with no tweetplaints maybe. Attempts at straight-up hick hop partying are even more generic than necessary (shoulda got one of the Lees in there), but I'll sure take him over Florida-Georgia, whose sprained twang, with or without autotune, is pretty painful.
― dow, Thursday, 30 October 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
Montevallo: name of a town and college in the town, where he's been doing all this studying, maybe.
― dow, Thursday, 30 October 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
"Fantastic"? "Elegant"? No.
― dow, Thursday, 30 October 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
interesting thoughts! i'll have to give it a listen
― dyl, Friday, 31 October 2014 06:38 (nine years ago) link
I've been to Montevallo and have friends who went to school there. It's in the middle of nowhere in the middle of Alabama.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 31 October 2014 07:15 (nine years ago) link
hmmm i listened to the album and it's pretty boring front-to-back. :\ i wanted to like it b/c i love some of the songs he cowrote that other artists recorded.
― dyl, Monday, 3 November 2014 01:53 (nine years ago) link
actually the opening track is slightly interesting
― dyl, Monday, 3 November 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link