Audio CD review:
David Wilcox - What You Whispered

David Wilcox - What You Whispered

Band: David Wilcox Title: What You Whispered Rating: Release Date: 29 August, 2000 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: What You Whispered 2: This Tattoo 3: Deeper Still 4: Start With The Ending 5: In The Broken Places 6: The Inside Of My Head 7: The Whisper Of The Wheels 8: On Your Way Back Down 9: Rule Number One 10: When You're Ready 11: Step Into Your Skin 12: Guitar Shopping 13: Soul Song

Editoral Review His best album, 1996's East Asheville Hardware, is an intimate acoustic homage to his years in North Carolina. Paradoxically, this Cleveland-born, now New England-based songwriter has been at his best when drawing on the lyrical space and spare country blues of the South. On What You Whispered, Wilcox often recaptures that homespun, unpretentious sincerity. A twangy National steel guitar figure opens his eighth album, complementing a memorably amorous lyric, and later returns for the sweaty, sexy funk of "Whisper of the Wheels," in which the road mirrors a woman's necessary but frightening self-discovery. Choosing to record at his Maryland home, Wilcox sounds mellow and assured, mostly abandoning the crutch of platitudinous folk-pop. It may still require effort to get past New Age sermons like "Rule Number One" or "Start with the Ending," but Wilcox seems to be finding his voice again. --Roy Kasten .. You can see a complete list of all David Wilcox discography, or go back to the David Wilcox tabs