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Artist: EastmountainsouthEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-06-17
Music Label: Dreamworks
Soundtracks:
- Hard Times
- Winter
- Ghost
- Interlude
- You Dance
- So Are You To Me
- Show Me The River
- Rain Come Down
- Still Running
- All The Stars
- Father
- Too Soon
- The Ballad Of Young Alban And Amandy
- Mark's Song
- On Your Way
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Free Music Review: Eastmountiansouth
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a strong debut album. Like Identity Crises it is impossible to place it into any single genre. However, unlike Lynne, this duo doesn't quite have as strong a sense of who they are. As a result they often sound similar to other acts, albeit, very good acts. However, this album does offer insight as to why Robbie Robertson was impressed enough to produce them. The album opens with one of its strongest tracks, a hauntingly gorgeous, lush, bluegrassy rendition of Stephen Foster's "Hard Times" (and say what you will, recording that song took guts). The next song is "Winter" whose pretty lyrics, "My heart was there for you/pounding down your door," make up for the fact that it sounds a little like Michelle Branch . "Ghost" is absolute pop in the pretty, gentle and polished manner of The Sundays or The Cardigans. However, the powerful lost love lyrics and haunting vocals of Kat Maslich propel it. Maslich really deserves huge quantities of praise as a vocalist, creating emotion from emotion and mood from melody, packing more power into her murmured "Remember Me" that a hat full of Diva's can wail at the top of their lungs. Next comes a very brief musical number, aptly titled "Interlude." "You Dance" is driven by a melody that is half Chariots of Fire, and it isn't quite as bad as all that, but it is one of the albums weakest tracks. This is also where we are introduced to the vocals of Peter Adams, who sounds like every Christian Rock male vocalist you have ever heard. "So Are You To Me" has the feel of an Alanis Morrisette piano number, but a very lovely fiddle and Maslich's voice rescue it. Adams' vocals fare better on "Show Me The River" and the interplay of the tenor guitar and mandolin makes up for the overall generic feel of the song. They delicately pull from Robertson for the rhythms on the haunting "Rain Come Down," which features Maslich singing with absolute conviction. "Still Running" pulls from the best Irish pop of The Cranberries to create a very powerful song. "All the Stars" attempts to pull it back to the country realm, which would have worked with Maslich's vocals. "Father" goes back to the piano and drum loops formula, to a pop area, which still really works for the abandonment theme of the song. "Too Soon," and country-pop tear jerker, is one of the best tracks, the harmonies providing the necessary isolation for lyrics like "we grew into life/we left out homes too soon." Oddly, this is followed by a pure Mountain ballad, the traditional "Ballad of Young Alban and Amandy." Next comes the quiet, country folk of "Mark's Song," which finds them asking "did you hear the call of angels one and all/may you find your way in peace." The album drifts to a close with "On Your Way," Adams' best track, a song about letting go of lost love.
Eastmountiansouth definitely have strong country roots that pull back to Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams. They also show considerable knowledge of that which separates good pop from bad pop. And, while I can point to some very obvious flaws in the album, I have listened to it three times since yesterday and it had to compete with Shelby Lynne who came in the same shipment.
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