The Album Review Club - Week #147 - (page 1942) - Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan

[RobMCFC]

Score? Where?

Just put it in a comment on here and I'll pick it up.

Scores are out of 10.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

I'm with you on this but I like a bit of country and as long as she's not banging on about a lover/ husband/ Wife who was a bastard and now she's very very unhappy about everything but has decided to move on because she's strong then I'll probably enjoy it.

Country is a totally different kettle of fish to country & western.
Country is more like folk/bluegrass/delta mishmashes depending on where from.
Some excellent country music. It’s honest.
C&W ? Don’t get me started.

 

[Saddleworth2]

I know! Was a sort of joke.

I know! And an accurate one.

 

[RobMCFC]

Country is a totally different kettle of fish to country & western.
Country is more like folk/bluegrass/delta mishmashes depending on where from.
Some excellent country music. It’s honest.
C&W ? Don’t get me started.

With you on that one. A good deal of the music I listen to these days has an element of alt.country/folk/bluegrass/delta to it.
It's what the country genre was originally (probably in the 30s and earlier) before it moved to a slicker, unit-shifting model.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Quite enjoying this. Reminds me of Alison Krauss & Union Station in spots. Robert plant and Allison Krauss too.
I’ve repeated Can’t Let Go and Joy a few times already.

 

[mancity1]

Quite enjoying this. Reminds me of Alison Krauss & Union Station in spots. Robert plant and Allison Krauss too.
I’ve repeated Can’t Let Go and Joy a few times already.

Ditto had heard about her and I know the song but know little else about her which annoys me a tad as I should have given my passion for Country.

AK words cannot describe how talented and engrossing she is to listen to and while Grammy awards for me are never a measure of talent , musicality and my devotion to the artist in AK 's case I make an exception albeit she doesn't often perform music she writes or collaborates on.

Raising Sand is in my top 20 favourite albums I have listened to.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Nope, sorry but so far it's not for me. I really wanted to like this but just found it all a bit dull, nothing grabbed me, all run of the mill stuff but then I'm no expert on this genre although I will listen to Sheryl Crowe (is that the same genre, I don't know?).

3/10

Off to listen to something faster and louder.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

She’s in the same league as Gillian Welch, Laura Cantrell, Diana Jones, Mary Gauthier etc, all superb.

 

[Mancitydoogle]

I got into new country/alt country/ Rebel country or whatever it was called before becoming part of the Americana genre, by Bob Harris playing Steve Earle’s ‘Guitar Town’.Followed by bands like Uncle Tupelo,WhiskeyTown.

I knew BB was a Lucinda Williams fan from other threads and this is her
piece de resistance IMHO although the albums that followed this are excellent too.
As said previously I’m not a big fan of female singers but LW is one of the
exceptions.I love her sexy southern drawl, pity she doesn’t look like she sounds lol.
The songs on this album are superb, well written and well played plus the bonus of Steve Earle being on it ,a favour she’s returned on a number of his albums.

I bought the album shortly after it’s release and it’s that good I still play it
regularly.Songs like the Title track, ‘Right on time’ 2 Kool 2 be 4 -Gotten,can’t let go and Joy are amongst my favourite LW songs.

This albums so varied too with elements of country,rock and folk.



It’s a definite 9/10.

 

[Mancitydoogle]

She has also done cover versions lps by the Stones,Dylan and Tom Petty if you can find them.
YouTube has a few videos of them.

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Stellar cast on this one.