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...much of herself, one was left ashamed. Did she not care that the audience had given nothing of themselves? But it is this exact artistic truth without expectation of sympathy that transcends mere integrity, that makes Williams' music so inviting. Speaking about "Right In Time," an achingly passionate ballad of lost love, Williams related that "on Good Morning America, they wanted us to leave out that line about me `lying on my back and moaning at the ceiling'...We left in anyway...
...gigs annually. Ferguson's stature and nurturing generosity have long attracted talented young musicians, but this exceptional group really cooks with revitalized standards (Just Friends gets a swinging, brassy treatment spiced with a fugue) and exciting new compositions, including the tuneful, scintillatingly played Waltz for Nicole and a lovely ballad, Milk of the Moon, that displays Ferguson's romantic side...
...newcomer to Nashville, Moorer writes songs that have an airy, panoramic sound and enough lonesome twang to fill a steel-guitar convention. She also comes with an impressive calling card: her lovely acoustic ballad A Soft Place to Fall was a breakout hit from the soundtrack to last spring's The Horse Whisperer. Moorer's deft songwriting proves she can live up to the advance billing. Classic mid-tempo heartbreakers like Tell Me Baby and Set You Free are her specialty, coaxing a gorgeously plaintive edge from her voice. Moorer may not have the pipes to belt it out like...
...music and language do not quite fit together. Occasionally, the lyrics get a little caught up in exorbitant verbosity and leave the music stumbling behind. "St. Louise is Listening" (a song as close to garage rock as Soul Coughing gets) and "Maybe I'll Come Down" (a bland ballad that strains Doughty's voice and listener's patience) are two songs that should have remained poems. In both, a surplus of syllables obviously constrains the music--Doughty is overly intellectual and whiny, the instrumentation is weak, and the beat sounds like it was churned from a cheap drum-machine...
...what was left out: vicious self-promotion. The new album was only mentioned once, and Griffin briefly revealed that the next single would be "At the Star,s, which was then performed with a simple, yet effective string arrangement and piano accompaniment. The steam-up-the-car-windows ballad climaxed with the lamenting lyrics "I've finally found that/Everybody loves to love you when you're far away...