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...work, it often gives an appealingly off-beat vibe. Within the deeper registers of country instrumentation, the listener simply can’t make out what she’s singing. The arrangements do little to make up for the bland vocal performances: the sound is cut-rate honky-tonk blues alternated with cut-rate Norah Jones jazzy-pseudo-neo-soul. That’s not to say it’s all bad, because when Marshall puts some effort into it, as in the title track, it’s lovely. The yearning vocals, echoed by the frustrated backing...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Greatest | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

...Summer” Sweeney fleshes out the song’s anemic melody with a menacing electric guitar riff, giving the track much-needed heft. Oldham is a formidable talent, but he is never better than when surrounded by great collaborators. Likewise, the honk-tonk pastiche of “I Send My Love to You” becomes an exhilarating rave-up thanks to Ryder McNair’s unhinged keyboarding. McNair is also responsible for the gospel-inspired improvisations on “Summer”: his wailing organ on “I See a Darkness?...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer in the Southeast | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...country music's hippest traditionalist turns to God as the best part of life: wise parent, firm friend, ultimate beau. This sheaf of fine songs, intimate readings and delicately powerful melodies makes divine love sound like a kiss in the back of a pickup. If there's a honky-tonk in heaven, Harris will be the star act on stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST MUSIC OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...video’s ramshackle aesthetic is the perfect compliment to the Silver Jews’ sound: “How Can I Love You” is, at heart, just old-fashioned honky-tonk music, and too much visual fuss would have muddied its simple pleasures...

Author: By J. samuel Abbott, Bernard L. Parham, and Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pop Screen | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...last ten minutes of their 11-minute long krautwank epic “Spiders (Kidsmoke)”). If any album were to break through to the other side of popularity, this is it. “Punks In the Beerlight” is a rollicking honky-tonk explosion, “I’m Getting Back Into Getting Into You” is a slow-burning love ballad, and album closer “There Is a Place” bridges the gulf between country and gospel with electrifying results. Rumor has it that Berman wrote...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tanglewood Numbers | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

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