• Trailer Bride

    Album Review
    Trailer Bride – Hope Is A Thing With Feathers
    Archive Posted On September 1, 2003


    Melissa Swingle’s best songs play out like Faulknerian tales of ruin set to music. Hope Is a Thing With Feathers finds the Trailer Bride singer at her finest on the sepia-toned leadoff track “Silk Hope Road”. In a world-weary voice […]


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    Album Review
    Trailer Bride – High Seas
    Archive Posted On July 1, 2001


    As a child, I was simultaneously exhilarated and terrified by carousels, clowns, organ grinder monkeys, and the ocean. I never outgrew those weird attractions/phobias. I still become joyful and anxious at the sight of a spider monkey wearing a bellhops […]


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    Album Review
    Trailer Bride – Whine De Lune
    Archive Posted On November 1, 1999


    Wanna work on the railroad, wanna drive some steel/Hey mister, won’t you hire me?/It’s been a while since my last meal/He says: But you’re a woman, run along back home/Who’s keeping your babies?/Does your husband know you’re out alone? At […]


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    Album Review
    Trailer Bride – Smelling Salts
    Archive Posted On May 1, 1998


    As niches go, “female rockabilly hepcat” looks to be wide open. Not anymore. Say hidy to Melissa Swingle, the singer-guitarist who puts the Bride (not to mention the smarts) in this North Carolina trio. Imagine a female Randy Newman crooning […]


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