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Tift Merritt
Trouble Over Me
Neighborhood
Diamond Shoes
When I Cross Over
Imagine the Rolling Stones recording a country album in Muscle Shoals with Dusty Springfield singing lead. Now imagine a young artist from North Carolina whose ambition not only measures itself against such classic compari.
more »sons, but shows the promise to transcend them. Tift Merritt s major-label debut finds such promise fulfilled on Sunday, the six-minute centerpiece in which the sweet sensuality of her upper register floats over an organ bedrock and vocal chorus that are pure Southern church. Even when other cuts sound like they could have been preserved in a 70s time capsule the generic country-rock of Diamond Shoes and the very Stonesy Neighborhood her vocals have a seductive intimacy that freshens the familiar. The lead guitar of producer Ethan Johns and the keyboards of Benmont Tench (on loan from Tom Petty s Heartbreakers) augment Merritt s band on arrangements that give the m
Carrie Newcomer
When It s Gone It s Gone
Tornado Alley
This Too Will Pass
Though Carrie Newcomer ranks with the most literary-minded of contemporary troubadours, The Age of Possibility is as impressive for its musical buoyancy and melodic grace as it is for its narrative command. The album finds.
more » Newcomer, coproducer Mark Williams, and session leader Don Dixon achieving a perfect balance of sound and sense. Subtle touches pay significant dividends: the cello that underscores the hymnlike purity of Thread and Sparrow, the accordion that waltzes through the autobiographical Just Like Downtown, the vibraphone that gives the shimmer to Seven Dreams. For all the thematic ambition of this song cycle as Newcomer sings of love and loss, blood and legacy, the passage of time and the timelessness of faith the results are never ponderous or preachy. Don McLeese