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| From | Bill Silvers <wsilvers@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Re: Dixie Chicks on EW |
| Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:25:56 -0500 |
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Miles replied:
> >Caitlin Cary's new record, I'M STAYING OUT,
> >is terrific and maybe the best thing I've heard yet this year. It's not
> >insanely great pop (Chris Stamey did a stellar job on the production,
> >FWIW), but it is a really entrancing mix of alt-country with R+B, rock and
> >folk. Cary's now the most artistically successful former member of
> Whiskeytown.
>
>I've only heard the one Cary song on the latest Yep Roc! sampler, liked
>it, and plan to get her CDs this weekend, but on the basis of just that
>one song, she'd be the most artistically successful former member of
>Whiskeytown.
I would advise you to steer clear of her debut EP, WALTZIE- not because
it's terrible, but it was a little disappointing. Her first LP WHILE YOU
WEREN'T LOOKING rocks a little more in spots than the new one, but meanders
a bit by comparison on the slower stuff. I've never really been impressed
one way or another with Chris Stamey's production work, but it's one of the
strengths of I'M STAYING OUT.
> Reminds me, I'm overdue to put PNEUMONIA in the "sell" pile (GOLD is
> long gone).
Heh heh. PNEUMONIA was all the more disappointing for the status it
acquired from a certain heavyweight's touting how great it was years before
it finally hit the market. Whether that can be attributed to Ethan Johns
production work or not, I don't suppose we're ever gonna a FAITHLESS STREET
reissue-type chance to find out.
b.s.
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