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However, beauty shouldn't sell albums, talent should - and this lady has it in abundance.
If you were to pidgeon-hole her, she would be seen as a modern country music singer, but there is so much more to her than that - blues, gospel, soul, r&b, rock, you name it, it's here and cooking!!!
In terms of the sound Ms Merritt creates, the menu here consists of reminders of Dusty Springfield, Van Morrison and Aretha Franklin to start with, then some touches of Jayhawks and Black Crows, a great bunch of talented musicians to follow (I love the guitar work, the horns and the organ) and top it all off with brilliant production. A recipe for success.
The opener "Stray Paper" gets you hooked straight away and then you're immersed in a whole bunch of brilliant tracks, all very different from one another. For me, after "Stray Paper", the Springfield-sounding "Good Hearted Man", the soulful "Still Pretending" and the rock-ridden "I Am Your Tambourine" are the standout tracks, but the others are not fillers by any means.
If someone had told me what her music was going to be like, I might have passed it by, but I'm glad I had a listen. This is so good and such an infectious album - one I bet she enjoyed recording - that I am so smitten, I think Bramble Rose will now be on my shortlist of next purchases.
Perhaps album of the year??
Tift Merritt, is a real artist. She has it all: looks, singing ability and songwriting ability. This is her second offical album. Her first 'Bramble Rose', was a classic debut and one of the best albums from 2002. Even though it had critical acclaim it went largely ignored. That album was in the vain of a country/rock album that Emmylou could have recorded in the 70s. Tift has evolved from that sound with this album.
It would be easy to compare her to various artists past and present, but I don't want to so that. I would rather people picked this up on Tift alone without the expectations of her being a carbon copy of someone else.
The album plays with alot of styles and genres, the opener 'Stray Paper', is a classic alt country song. 'Wait It Out', 'Ain't looking Closely', 'Write My Ticket' and "Late Night Pilgrim' are all rocking songs, which is completely different to anything previous she has released. 'Good Hearted Man' and 'Still Pretending', are less pace and more classic soul, I haven't heard anything quite as soulful for some time. Keeping with the soulfulness 'I am Your Tambourine' and 'Shadow In The Way' take on gospel with excellent results. The two songs that could have fitted on 'Bramble Rose' and two of the outstanding songs 'Plainest Thing' and 'Laid A Highway', should be played on country radio in the states but sadly won't.
If you already have 'Bramble Rose' or her duet cd with The Two Dollar Pistols, then this may take a few listens for you to absorb it but it will grow on you.
... Read more ›2004, so before Another Country,but I cant recommend it enough
Not a duffer on it, yet she writes to "Russell (presumably Carter": "I would have given up without your patient belief in this record". Oh my god - what hope for the rest of us. Everything about this album is right, how could she have had those doubts.
Singer songwriter - self penned - fantastic.
Band - hot and cooking.
Production - polished. As a (very much) amateur singer/songwriter/arranger/producer myself, "Good Hearted Man" is just so exquisite produced I could weep at the perfection of it. "Ain't Looking Closely" comes close, and "Still Pretending" is up there too.
Blues, rock, gospel, SOUL, country. Don't let categories put you off.
It's just a great record. Superlatives are not enough!
If there's one criticism it's the cover. And it's probably not her fault. There seems to be a trend to put pretty girls on the cover. Now a cover has to have something on it I agree. But take "Taylor Swift" or "Elizabeth Cook" for example - the presentation doesn't really encourage you to think "great music" - yet Swift is amazing too. OK it's a matter of taste, and equally, what does a sunset or a mountain say? But I'm buying music not a glamour or soft pron magazine!!!!
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