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Bible Belter,
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This review is from: Bible Belt (Audio CD)
Diane Birch wrote a fair bit of Bible Belt (great name) in London, but it earned its release in America in 2009, a whole year before it's British release. This is perhaps because gospel-inspired soul is more popular in the US than here. But if you're willing to look beyond the genre, this album is well worth getting hold of.
Birch's father travelled the world as a preacher, and she apparently had limited access to popular music until she was a teenager, but learned the piano from the age of seven. She is a mean pianist, playing acoustic and Rhodes electric pianos. Her singing is individual and confident, with a wide rich register. The band is laid-back and supportive, with an average age rather higher than Birch's youthful 27. Lenny Kaye is one of the guitarists, and there's a small orchestra on a couple of tracks too. Some of the tracks sound a little middle-of-the-roady, but they all have something to make them special. The first half of Photograph, for example, is a rather staid waltz-time track, but then it bursts into a spectacular Hey-Jude-style jam with a gospel chorus, strings and a horn section. The muted trumpet on the hook to the track Rewind is another masterstroke - simple, but effective, and the lyric is powerful too. Birch's lyrics have mainly secular themes, but draw heavily on gospel styles. Birch performed Valentino on Later... with Jools Holland on BBC TV, which is a reasonable endorsement in itself. Diane Birch has a compelling voice, songs that are catchy and while still fitting into a gospel/soul/bluesy genre, still have enough originality to keep me pressing replay.
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Timeless classic soul blues,
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This review is from: Bible Belt (Audio CD)
I've played this back-to-back many times & it just gets better, several tracks aleady seem like soul standards. Great voice & backing band, Diane Birch seems imbued in the heritage, the only critcism might be she's so soaked it in it, it's almost formulaic, but just about teeters on the right side with her personality winning over. Go and get it - a genuine mood enhancer
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Norah Jones sings Exile on Main Street,
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If Norah Jones sang "Shine a Light" from The Stones' "Exile on Main Street" it might sound like this excellent album. This is not the "Bible Belt" of an evangelical Southern Preacher but the "Bible Belt" that would have been cast across the end of a seedy motel room in some desert town after Gram Parsons had unbuckled it.It is soulfull songwriting with a dash of gospel and jazz, basic four piece backing with appropriately layered horns or strings only when they add something extra to the mix and I cannot stop playing it. Early choice for album of the year.
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