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Edie Brickell - Volcano Audio CD

A fair review of the Edie Brickell "Volcano" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Edie Brickell reviews here, or go back to the Edie Brickell tabs.

Edie Brickell Band: Edie Brickell
Title: Volcano
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Release Date: 2003-10-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Rush Around 2: Oo La La 3: I'd Be Surprised 4: Songs We Used to Sing 5: Once in a Blue Moon 6: Volcano 7: More Than Friends 8: Messenger 9: One Who Went Away 10: Take a Walk 11: Not Saying Goodbye 12: Came a Long Way 13: What Would You Do

Gets better and better
It still reeks of Edie's easy, breezy lyrics and crafty, delicious melodies, in the best way, but in more subtle, nuanced, cohesive ways. Like the most recent reviewer states, this album just gets better with repeated listenings.
I just picked this album up again after a break, and continue to be entranced and surprised by its sexy, seductive sophistication. Its songs creep up on me. . . before I know it, a song I merely liked before up and confronts me with its smart charm. Like Meryl in Prada, Edie doesn't need to shout (vocally or in production) to make her points. . . she's still got the goods and trusts them.
Most recently, I've also been taken by the cross-pollination of Manhattan singer-songwriter and Texas folkie energies. At once I feel like I'm in a cool, divey East Village hangout and. . . a cool, divey Austin venue.
Great work, pure and simple.


Awesome work from Edie Brickell and Charlie Sexton
The sound engineering is just awesome. This is a beautiful record.
The guitar work by Charlie Sexton is what carries the best tracks forward in a sweet, slow, no-hurry pace - like honey sliding off a stack of pancakes. Track 1, Rush Around, may fool you into thinking you picked a country record, but Edie shows her varied style and range as you proceed through tracks 3,4,5 and beyond. Favourite tracks are 4,5,7, and 12. Listen to these awesome songs and the guitar work and underlying baseline will blow you away.


Pleasantly surprised!
The last thing I heard from her was the live EP Montauk Sessions that was available on the band website. I had no idea Edie had slipped Volcano out until I saw Stranger Things on Amazon being advertised. So I found 2 gems at once and am overjoyed! The Montauk session songs are even scattered about the 2 latest albums in studio form. I have to say that I like the live version of Spanish Style Guitar much better than the studio recording. I can really appreciate Edie Brickell alone and with the New Bohemians. I find her solo stuff perfect for mellow, feel-good/feel-sad times and the band stuff perfect for bringing out a more firey Edie. She is full of passion in both settings and her voice is superb. I hope they continue to produce fantastic work together and alone!!!.


Understated Beauty
Some folks seem to think that when an artist changes their creative direction and even their basic style and/or subject matter (for whatever reason; marriage to another prominent musician, children, etc. Every now and then, I read reviews of CD's that have been out for a while, and decide that I need to make a comment. ), they have "sold out" for commercial success, or even worse, that they have betrayed their fan base. When Joni Mitchell came out with her heavily synthesized, and extremely political DOG EAT DOG, one could practically hear the collective screams of her longtime fans around the world. The critics were merciless (PLEASE, Joni, go back to writing love songs)! Although, in retrospect, DOG EAT DOG is not one of Joni's most enduring works, it paved the way for a new artistic direction, and some of her late period masterpieces like NIGHT RIDE HOME and TURBULENT INDIGO combined social and political commentary with the more intimate, confessional qualities she had been known for. VOLCANO has not been pulverized by the critics in the way that DOG EAT DOG was, but there has been lots of dismay expressed by those who wanted Edie Brickell to remain as she was, a cool bohemian with a major streak of eccentricity, qualities she seems to have traded in for domestic bliss (a sort of reversal of what happened with Mitchell). One reviewer here feels no passion in Brickell's new music. Here's were I beg to differ; this music takes small, everyday subject matter and converts it to poetry. The singing and the musicianship are at once tight and relaxed. This is a very neat record that contains little hidden moments of reflection and revelation to be discovered upon repeated listening. I really liked PICTURE PERFECT morning (and seem to part with majority opinion on that one), but this later CD is more immediate and raw, and at the same time, more polished and sophisticated. I can't wait to hear the results of her upcoming reunion the New Bohemians, and I have little doubt that what she has learned as a solo performer will only enhance her new group work. .


Another great album
Love #5, "Once in a Blue Moon. I'll keep this review short- Edie never fails! This album is peaceful and beautiful; I've had the album since its release and still listen to it several times a week. ".


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