Kathleen Edwards : Failer.
Posted by: Minky on 21 January 2004
Sorry to not post this on "Nik's head" but I'm not sure that the people I want to talk to are regulars on that thread.
My favorite CD store is shutting its doors for the last time at the end of the month. Turnover has halved in the last year. The internet and MP3s are touted as the prime suspects but I think that the problem is more that people aren't prepared to pay a premium to subsidise a shop with better service and lower turnover. The poor buggers were spending all of their time dishing out musical passion to people who would then nip round the corner to the cut-price stores.
Anyway, they are having a clearance sale and I was talked into buying a copy of the above mentioned album because it was dirt-cheap and sounded OK in the shop. Imagine my surprise when I found myself listening to a female Ryan Adams. Same tortured alt.country songs, same exposed underbelly, same affecting way of using an imperfect voice.
I really really recommend this album. If you like Whiskeytown, the emotional rawness of Lucinda Williams, the riff-based loveliness of the songs on Roseanne Cash's last album, the fragility of Beth Orton, you can't go wrong with this one. Promise.
P.S. Not giving a toss about the survival of the remaining CD stores that specialise in crap music and rudeness, I just ordered 6 CDs from Amazon. They arrived in 10 days and including P&P cost roughly half of what they would have been had I ordered them locally (given that they were all "imports"). Joy. It's life Spock, but not as we know it.
My favorite CD store is shutting its doors for the last time at the end of the month. Turnover has halved in the last year. The internet and MP3s are touted as the prime suspects but I think that the problem is more that people aren't prepared to pay a premium to subsidise a shop with better service and lower turnover. The poor buggers were spending all of their time dishing out musical passion to people who would then nip round the corner to the cut-price stores.
Anyway, they are having a clearance sale and I was talked into buying a copy of the above mentioned album because it was dirt-cheap and sounded OK in the shop. Imagine my surprise when I found myself listening to a female Ryan Adams. Same tortured alt.country songs, same exposed underbelly, same affecting way of using an imperfect voice.
I really really recommend this album. If you like Whiskeytown, the emotional rawness of Lucinda Williams, the riff-based loveliness of the songs on Roseanne Cash's last album, the fragility of Beth Orton, you can't go wrong with this one. Promise.
P.S. Not giving a toss about the survival of the remaining CD stores that specialise in crap music and rudeness, I just ordered 6 CDs from Amazon. They arrived in 10 days and including P&P cost roughly half of what they would have been had I ordered them locally (given that they were all "imports"). Joy. It's life Spock, but not as we know it.