Little Big Town - A Place To Land
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Artist: Little Big TownBrand: Baker Drivetrain
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Fine Line
- I'm with the Band
- That's Where I'll Be
- Evangeline
- Vapor
- Novocaine
- Only What You Make of It
- Place to Land
- Firebird Fly
- To Know Love
- Lonely Enough
- Fury
- Good Lord Willing
- Love Profound
- You're Gonna Love Me
- Life In A Northern Town (w/Sugarland & Jake Owen)
Free Music Notes for A Place To Land
Free Music Review: Now This is (Pure) Country Music Album 3
Hit: 5 Stars
Bottom-Line: Like The Road To Here, "A Place To Land" is an aural treat, a musical feast for the ears and the soul; "it ain't love, if its mean Evangeline."
Here I sit in front of my keyboard and computer; my headphones on listening once again to the lush expertly arranged four-part harmonies that I have come to learn are the hallmark of Little Big Town. This time the album is the quartettes' 3rd studio release "A Place To Land" (2007). And I have to wonder again how this group escaped my notice until this year!?
Now that I am aware of the group Little Big Town is my new musical obsession; one or another of the group's songs seems to play in a continuous loop in my head, and that is saying a lot because I listen to a LOT of music in the course of a day. But unlike some of the cookie-cutter sounds spewing out of Nashville hit machine these days, the tunes played by Little Big Town is just gorgeous music!
Little Big Town, founded in 1998 in Nashville, is composed of Karen Fairchild (lead & background vocals), Kimberly Schlapman (lead & background vocals), Jimi Westbrook (lead & background vocals, rhythm guitar), and Phillip Sweet (lead & background vocals, rhythm guitar). The quartet's musical style relies heavily on opulent four-part vocal harmonies, with all four members alternating as lead singers.
Since its release in 2007, "A Place To Land" has produced (1) Top 40 hit, track No.2 I'm With The Band. Shortly after that song's release Little Bog Town moved to a new label, Capitol Records Nashville, which acquired the rights to "A Place To Land" and subsequently released track No.1 Fine Line and track No.13 Good Lord Willing as the albums second and third singles. And collectively Little Big Town has charted (12) songs on Billboard Hot Country Songs Charts; this figure includes a live cover of Life in a Northern Town performed live in concert with Sugarland and Jake Owen.
On a side note I often wonder what the criteria is for releasing a single, because I would have choose the beautifully rendered track No.4 Evangeline (my favorite song on the CD) before either of the aforementioned tracks. The song to me epitomizes the strength of Little Big Town: the group's unwavering and delightfully engaging four-part harmony and unique C&W sound that is woefully missing in other groups.
In "A Place To Land", Little Big Town has another hit on their musical hands, another strong album with few equals on the C&W landscape. As I wrote in my review of the groups 2nd album The Road To Here, it's rare that I enjoy every song on a given album, but such again is the case with "A Place To Land". The lyrics are strong and well written (mostly by members of the group); the instrumentation is vintage American C&W, complete with banjos, rhythm and slide guitars, fiddles, and tambourines. And the vocals, yes the vocals, are comprised of strong leads accompanied by big, lush four-part harmonies that would do Boys-II-Men proud.
I stand by my statement that Little Big Town is everything a group like Lady Antebellum is not! After listening to both groups it's hard for me to square all of the accolades thrown at Lady A's (as Lady Antebellum is popularly known) collective feet, while a suburb group like Little Big Town, which epitomizes the American country sound, continues to labor without proper commercial and industry recognition; i.e. a Grammy, American Music Award, or ACM award.
Because the group changes lead signers from track to track, the music is fluid and ever changing; i.e. you never know what might be coming next, and that's half the fun of listening to "A Place To Land." The one constant however, is the sumptuous four-part harmonies that you can sit back and sink your ears into and swear you were in musical heaven. "A Place To Land" checks in at an ambitious 16 tracks, including the beautifully done live cover of Life in a Northern Town (track No.16) performed live in concert with Sugarland and Jake Owen mentioned above.
There is not one C&W group on the American backdrop--that I know if anyway--that can touch Little Big Town's musical acumen, they are unique to the C&W music world. The combination of two men and two women is the perfect (unique) combination, and produces such perfect harmonies, blend so effortlessly, that one would swear they have been together since diapers, but in fact they have only been together for twelve years. The alternating lead vocal duties are also unique, as is the fact that all four members' vocal acuity is equal to the others in the group.
Like The Road To Here, "A Place To Land" is an aural treat, a musical feast for the ears and the soul. From the first track to the last, there is not one misstep, one false note; there is everything to love and nothing to dislike on this CD. If you are fan of seriously good C&W music do yourself a huge favor and check out the "A Place To Land" from Little Big Town!
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2008 re-release of A Place to Land, the third studio album by Country music group Little Big Town who found a home at Capitol Records Nashville. "We want the world to hear this music," says Schlapman, "It's how we tell the story of our lives." In addition to the project's 12 original tracks, the re-release features four brand new studio tracks, as well as "Life in a Northern Town," a live collaboration with former tourmates Sugarland and Jake Owen. Riding on the success of the album's hit single "Fine Line," A Place to Land demonstrates the group's continuing growth and evolution. Originally released in 2007 as their second album on the independent Equity Music Group label.If Little Big Town's platinum-selling debut, The Road to Here, found the foursome putting a backwoods spin on both Fleetwood Mac and the Southern California rock scene, the band's sophomore release pays such direct tribute to their heroes that you'd have to have a tin ear not to recognize the very songs that inspired them. Liked Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way?" They've got it under the bargain title "Fine Line." Loved "The Chain" and "Landslide?" They're here, too, but with different titles. Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Suite: Judy Eyes?" Try "I'm with the Band." And if it's Sheryl Crow or the Eagles you want, consider A Place to Land one-stop shopping. And why not? If the latter artists started out enamored with country, why can't Nashville return the favor? Who could resist those impeccably arranged and polished harmonies wrapped around such trendy topics as emotional abuse and low self-esteem? Homage never sounded so heavenly. --Alanna Nash
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