Audio CD review:
The Be Good Tanyas - Chinatown

The Be Good Tanyas - Chinatown

Band: The Be Good Tanyas Title: Chinatown Rating: Release Date: 2003-02-10 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: It's Not Happening - The Be Good Tanyas, Ford, Frazey 2: Waiting Around to Die - The Be Good Tanyas, VanZandt, Townes 3: Junkie Song - The Be Good Tanyas, Ford, Frazey 4: Ship Out on the Sea - The Be Good Tanyas, Ford, Frazey 5: Dogsong 2 - The Be Good Tanyas, Parton, Samantha 6: Rowdy Blues - The Be Good Tanyas, P.D. 7: Reuben - The Be Good Tanyas, trad. 8: House of the Rising Sun - The Be Good Tanyas, trad. 9: In Spite of All the Damage - The Be Good Tanyas, Ford, Frazey 10: Lonesome Blues - The Be Good Tanyas, Parton, Samantha 11: In My Time of Dying - The Be Good Tanyas, trad. 12: I Wish My Baby Was Born - The Be Good Tanyas, trad. 13: Horses - The Be Good Tanyas, Be Good Tanyas 14: Midnight Moonlight - The Be Good Tanyas, Rowan, Peter

Beautiful Doesn't Even Begin to Describe! I run out of adjectives long before I run out of intense feeling for these three women (Frazey Ford, Samantha Parton, and Trish Klein) and the music they are creating. Sad, sweet, soulful, superb, haunting, moving, exquisite, evocative, soft, lovely. A warm and inventive combination of traditional, folk, blues, bluegrass (really the latter only `cause they use the banjo), the music of The Be Good Tanyas is some of the most wonderful music around. Their three voices are amazing enough that any of them could be a soloist, but when they braid and intertwine and harmonize they are positively transporting. Accompanying themselves on banjo, guitar, mandolin, ukulele, harmonica and a bit of electric guitar, they offer new life and powerful interpretations to traditional songs (House of the Rising Sun, In My Time of Dying, I wish My Baby Was Born), as well as to music they compose themselves. I would stack the Tanyas' version of In My Time of Dying against anyone's, and that includes Dylan, Led Zeppelin (they did a terrific version on Physical Graffiti!), Mellencamp, and Beth and April Stevens. Chinatown is their second album, (2003), and will be no disappointment to fans of Blue Horse (2000), their first amazing album. My only sadness is that The Be Good Tanyas don't produce more music more faster. C'mon ladies, make us another one soon! . You can see a complete list of all The Be Good Tanyas discography, or go back to the The Be Good Tanyas tabs