Corinne Cook – Yes I Can

Corinne Cook – Yes I Can

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Corinne Cook’s third album Yes I Can continues building on a career that’s seen this prodigiously talented modern country performer and writer growing in every phase of her artistic presentation. She’s expanded on the possibilities of her material, as well, entering the fray as a co-writer on two of the album’s tracks and providing listeners with a wide range of emotional experiences instead of cookie cutter fodder indistinguishable from many of the genre’s marquee acts. The performances and creative vision encompassing Yes I Can hails from someone with a clearly articulated desire to utilize her art as a means of personal expression – this approach is well in keeping with what we’ve heard from her earlier efforts, but it’s more refined and focused than ever before with Yes I Can. The California born singer has experienced a significant degree of success since first emerging on the scene and her latest release is arguably her best yet.

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“Last Thing to Go” ushers the album in with some great musical fireworks. The harmonica anchoring much of the song’s bluesy musical attack puts an exclamation point on an outstanding track. Cook is a more than capable blues singer and seems to intuitively understand how to phrase this sort of material without ever straining for credibility. The title song is much different fare, more nuanced, and falls more on the rustic flavored pop side of the spectrum. “Yes I Can”, as well, comes off as one of the more personal statements on this album, a fact illustrated by how much Cook gives to the chorus rather than being content to coast like less disciplined singers might in a similar situation.

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“Trying Not To Die” makes heartache so graceful and musically alluring it’s easy to be distracted from the deep emotion manifested in Cook’s voice and phrasing. The music and lyrical content supply all the necessary drama and Cook’s singing realizes it in full without embracing histrionics or post production gimmickry to make this a top shelf vocal. The addition of violin to the song gives it extra melodic depth. “Devil’s Heaven” could scarcely be more different as Cook and her collaborators shift gears into a brawling country rocker with a punchy and effective chorus. It’s a bit of a departure in another sense, as well, thanks to its largely character driven lyric.

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“Mr. Mechanic” is, arguably, the closest thing on Yes I Can to outright rock, but there’s some country and pop influences working their way into the song as well. It has a compelling arrangement grabbing your attention from the first and never stays around too long. Without exception, these songs share a common focus suggesting Cook came into the studio prepared for this album and with a firm idea of its final sound. Ending the album with the two ballad-style numbers like “Seven White Stars” and “Those Few Dreams” further strengthens that theory and, instead of lulling listeners out of the album, these two slower, gently unwinding tracks bring listeners into their world with acoustic guitar, piano, and more violin playing. The light orchestration of the latter song, the album’s closer, is particularly effective and closes Yes I Can on a wonderfully artful note.

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