For years the only Christmas album I had was Ella Fitzgerald’s Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (1960). Not that I had anything against the holiday season, but they all seemed to contain the same songs sung in the same heartfelt […]
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(more from Nashville Scene ballot comments re 2016) Chely Wright—-I Am The Rain: the title doesn’t mean she cries all the time; it’s a line from “You Are The River”, which, in a classic country way, develops logically and poignantly […]
Has it really been two months since my last update on new and recent releases? Well, a lot has happened during that time — not the least of all some more-than-noteworthy releases, roots and more. All of these are, one way or […]
Country singer, guitarist, and songwriter Chely Wright’s coming out as a lesbian in May of 2010 not only liberated a woman from a secret she’d held since she was eight years old; it inflamed preexisting concerns within Music Row about […]
Think of The Metropolitan Hotel as a suite of pleasant but nondescript rooms — except for one that offers a revealing, even startling, view. Ten of these eleven songs are standard fare, though toughened somewhat with an assertive edge. On […]
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