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The Be Good Tanyas - Chinatown Audio CD

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The Be Good Tanyas Band: The Be Good Tanyas
Title: Chinatown
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Release Date: 2003-02-10
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: It's Not Happening 2: Waiting Around to Die 3: Junkie Song 4: Ship Out on the Sea 5: Dogsong 2 6: Rowdy Blues 7: Reuben 8: House of the Rising Sun 9: In Spite of All the Damage 10: Lonesome Blues 11: In My Time of Dying 12: I Wish My Baby Was Born 13: Horses 14: Midnight Moonlight

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!
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