Tres Chicas - Bloom, Red & the Ordinary Girl
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Free Music Review: Talented Ensemble Bats .500
Hit: 4 Stars
Their 1st CD is better, I rate only 6/12 songs on this one as keepers. For you MP3 downloaders, my list is: Drop Me Down, Shade Trees in Bloom, Sway, Only Broken, 400 Flamingos, and Slip So Easily. However, Tres Chicas is a very talented group that I'd like to hear more from. I found this group in kind of an interesting way. See my review of "Sweetwater".
Free Music Review: Best of 2006
Hit: 5 Stars
It's clear now that the creative force in Whiskeytown, the fondly remembered and lauded alt country group wasn't Ryan Adams, but Caitlin Cary, who has gone on to produce two superb solo discs, a stunning collaboration with Thad Cockrell and now a second sublime effort with Tres Chicas.
Joining Cary are North Carolina mates Lynn Blakey and Tonya Lamm for a disc that is more polished, but also better than their first. Each contributes songs, though Cary is often in the middle. And there is a stunning cover opener, "Drop Me Down." But it's the aching vocals and lush, captivating harmonies that bring you back for listen after listen. Listen to the moment when Cary breaks into the harmonies on "All the Shade Trees in Bloom." Or that ache echoing Cary's violin on "Slip So Easily." Bill Kirchen, Nick Lowe and Geraint Watkins provide instrumental support.
Certainly, one of the best discs of 2006
Free Music Review: Americana from the other side of the ocean
Hit: 4 Stars
La distancia es el olvido? Para grabar su segundo album "Bloom, Red & The Ordinary Girl", Caitlin Cary (ex Whiskeytown), Lynn Blakey (Glory Fountain), y Tonya Lamm (ex Hazeldine) han dejado su Carolina del Norte por Londres, para ponerse en manos de los productores Neil Brockbank y Robert Trehern (conocidos por sus trabajos con Nick Lowe). Y con esa habil jugada, Tres Chicas han conseguido romper las fronteras del Americana y ampliar el potencial de su propuesta.
Y es que, a diferencia de su debut "Sweetwater" (2004), el trio no solo recurre a las multiples variantes del country, sino que se abre a influencias del folk irlandes ("Red"), el soul de los 60 ("Sway"), el pop ("My Love"), las torch songs retro de belleza turbadora ("Stone Love Song" y "Shade Trees In Bloom"), y el jazz pop de factura mas actual ("Only Broken"). Es decir, algo parecido a lo que hace Neko Case, a quien evocan en la atmosferica "400 Flamingos". El country solo aparece en "The Man Of The People", y en la pegadiza "If You Think That It's All Right" de Johnny Carver. La otra version del album es el "Drop Me Down" de Lou Ford. Para arropar sus excelentes armonias, Tres Chicas cuentan con las colaboraciones de Nick Lowe, el guitarrista Bill Kirchen, el pedal steel B.J. Cole, y el pianista Geraint Watkins, de la banda de Van Morrison. Mas que la nueva sensacion del Americana, con su segundo disco Tres Chicas aspiran a conquistar mercados m?s amplios.
Free Music Review: Coming to a town near you soon...
Hit: 5 Stars
Another wonderful CD from these three individually very talented performers who, when they work together, most certainly become something larger than the "sum of their parts".
This is a terrific recording, but Tres Chicas should be seen live if at all possible.
Free Music Review: Perfect Harmonies
Hit: 5 Stars
Oh the perfect harmonies from Caitlin, Lynn and Tonya! I've listened to their new album about 7 times now and read all the lyrics, as I knew I would, and I just love it, as I knew I would. My favorite song off the album is 11, "Slip So Easily." I melt when I hear this, as if Lynn was reminiscing about the last time my own heart was broken, just trod upon, so many years ago and Caitlin's violin work wraps delicate melodies around her sweet, wistful vocals. I also feel a close personal connection to 4, "All the Shade Trees in Bloom." And not to only focus on Lynn here...10, "400 Flamingos," is also a work of art and Caitlin does a beautiful job of making me feel the almost desperate hurt of the song.
There are several tracks--I'd say especially 2 "Stone Love Song" and 7 "Only Broken"--that have a refreshing jazz feel to them. The composition and the upbeat additions from a long list of notable contributing musicians kick it up a notch, keeping the album from becoming too heavy and somber.
Overall though, Bloom, Red & the Ordinary Girl reflects a folk tradition that is so often lost by modern singer/songwriters. If you feel distraught over the loss of the art of folk music that was so prevalent in the 60's and 70's, this release will renew your faith. I love both the first and this new album, for their respective inimitable qualities.
Lyrically, this album seems to have been written during a time of reflection and loss, heartbreak and personal inwardly-directed friction. It's not depressing; don't get me wrong--these are love songs that convey deep-rooted emotions that we all struggle to convey during the hard times, they're the reasons that it just sometimes doesn't work out, and reflection on the different stages of relationships that everyone has endured, whether you're 20 or 80. I sense a lot less fun, hope and attitude on Bloom, Red & the Ordinary Girl and more reflection, wistfulness and hurt-welcome to Life and Love 201. However, they leave us with the upbeat "If You Think It's All Right" perfected by the inclusion of my favorite instrument, the phenomenal pedal steel...as if to say that you can reflect and overanalyze all you want, but hey, if it's okay with you, it's okay with me and let's go take a walk and enjoy each other. Perhaps this is now a Chicas tradition to wake us dreamers up at the end of an emotional ride as they did with "Take the Devil Out of Me" on their first release.
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