Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez - The Trouble With Humans
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Artist: Chip Taylor & Carrie RodriguezEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Music Label: Train Wreck Records
Soundtracks:
- Don't Speak in English
- Memphis, Texas
- All the Rain
- Curves and Things
- The Trouble with Humans
- Oh Ireland
- Fall
- Laredo
- Dirty Little Texas Story
- Confessions
- I Need a Wall
- We Come Up Shining
- Find Me a Killer
Free Music Notes for The Trouble With Humans
Free Music Review: Chip n' Carrie are da hizzzel fo-shizzzle dogg!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I took a chance on this album, and I'm very glad I did. I bought it two weeks ago, listened to it for a week, and then picked up two more of their albums ('Angel of the Morning' [a live disc] & 'Red Dog Tracks') both of which - I think I can aver, from two days exposure - are as good as this one.
For those who are not aware (I wasn't until I listened to this, and did a little research) Chip Taylor has quite the career as a singer-songwriter (penned 'Angel of the Morning' - of Juice Newton/Merilee Rush fame, and 'Wild Thing' sung by - what was it - the Troggs?) interspaced with periods as a professional golfer & gambler (banned form Atlantic City).. Anyhow, we can all rejoice, because he's given up both frivolities, and thankfully returned to where he belongs, to song. (See ChurchoftheTrainWreckdotOrg, for the story straight from the man himself..)
Some few apparently dislike his voice - a West Texas breeze fluting sagegrass & cracked deadwood - a warm, sonorous country folk gravel, rent by an occasional crack or twang; reminiscent of Willie Nelson cut with Johnny Cash's lighter tones (and Chip does in fact do a mean Johnny imitation, check out the bonus track.) It's gently rough & musical, I dig it.
As for Carrie, she is sweet. That, in more ways than one. Her voice melds with Chip's like honey on peanut butter - she reminds me of a brasher Natalie Maines, only these guys' material is much better than the Dixie Chicks' (a band I've liked historically, because of their folk & bluegrass influences, but gone too pop-rock glitz for me these days..) Chip & Carrie, in contrast, are nothing but country-folk-bluegrass fusion. Eclectic, yet masterful. And Man oh Manoschevitz, do I love it.
Two of my favorite instruments are prominent here, Carrie's fiddle, and Chip's harmonica. Being a harp player myself, I've been jamming along with this album, which is *much* groovier than singing to it. Good times.. Yessir.
Songs. Couple honorable mentions: The first, and last ('hidden' - but not too deeply, thank goodness) tracks are simply super.. 'Don't Speak in English' & 'Find Me a Killer..' They name check Puff Diddy, Johnny Cash (inspiring Chip's Cash "Bridge Over Troubled Water" rendition,) John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, etc.. and include a snippet cover of Hank Sr.'s I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You..)
Chip on the MTV awards show: "Now Puff Diddy's the host, but Carrie, Diddy's doin' nothin' for me.. (Carrie interjects: "And this isn't my kinda music, really") ..but the girls sure look pretty, least that's the way it seems around here these days.."
Well, I'm with you on that first bit there, Chip. But I gotta say those hop hip mommas'll never touch Carrie..
Anyway, suddenly Chip's anomie verges into laconic (satiric?) revolt: "Oh me, ain't breakin' a sweat, gonna find me a killer, get me a contract and shoot out the TV set.." Heh heh. Since mercy killing is against the law, they unfortunately can't advocate capping P Diddy & the rest of those obnoxious nihilists.. So Chip & Carrie take a rhetorical 12-gauge to the major media & music industry. Pump a couple buckshot into your radio, then listen to these guys, instead.
Live the folk. Music of, by and for the people. Take that Clear Channel!
Anyway: Check this one out, I doubt you'll regret it.
The Trouble With Humans Poster
Like the relationship between Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Sofia Coppola?s film, Lost In Translation, the intergenerational bonding of Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez works in a way that eludes easy analysis. The elder former hit song writer ("Wild Thing," "Angel Of The Morning")/professional gambler and the younger singer/fiddler harmonize telepathically, while their vocal timbres compliment each other, matching his Billy Joe Shaver gruffness with her Lucinda Williams attitudinal twang. The Trouble With Humans builds on the back-porch feeling of their debut record with improved sonics that increases the intimacy to a point where the tunes feel almost accidentally overheard. While it would be wrong to call it a concept record, there is a strong theme running throughout. Lines like "don?t say words I understand" ("Don?t Speak In English"), "don?t say a word" ("Memphis, Texas"), and "some words should hit the air like silence" ("Curves And Things") speak of the failure of language, ironically on a CD rife with well-crafted lyrics. But truly, for Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez, it is their unique musical kinship that speaks greater volumes. --Michael RossCountry Music CDs
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