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Topic: Miranda Lambert...think again |
Tony Palmer
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St Augustine,FL
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Posted 19 Nov 2006 6:54 am |
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Okay, then listen to this song by her and tell me if it isn't a GREAT country song!
click here
So if she was so terrible on the awards show, how can she cut a song this good?!?
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Ken Lang
From:
Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 19 Nov 2006 6:59 pm
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| Wow. That is a good song. |
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John Macy
From:
Rockport TX/Denver CO
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Posted 19 Nov 2006 7:21 pm
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| I have her record and it's pretty good. I bought it cause Hank Singer played fiddle on it. I think Frank Lidell, LeeAnn Womack's husband, produced it... |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 2:15 am
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this is great song by a great little singer/songwriter.
This is the Miranda that WE like here at home, not that clone we saw on the tube smashing the Epiphone...
t[This message was edited by Tony Prior on 20 November 2006 at 09:52 AM.] |
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Duane Reese
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 9:09 am
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Well at least she didn't smash a real Gibson... Heh heh.
I like how the steel has some of that grit in the tone. I understand it's Russ Pahl on the steel - anyone know what guitar he played on that session? |
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 9:23 am
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| A nice, swinging tune in the traditional country style. However, it is mixed using the same techniques as most New Country: heavy compression, vocal all squat down and squeezed in the middle of everything, steel at an non-threatening volume, British valve amp modeler on the guitar........in short, a wolf in sheep's clothing. |
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Duane Reese
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 9:40 am
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It's called the volume contest. Obviously some compression is needed to fit the signal on a CD at decent level, but somehow they just didn't know where to stop. Oh well...
Now you're sure about the British modeling amp, right? |
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Tony Palmer
From:
St Augustine,FL
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 9:49 am
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The point is the girl is capable of singing a damn fine fast country shuffle song (who else has cut a song this traditional sounding like this recently?)
And that's the irony...her performance on the CMA awards was totally trashed by everyone...she proves with this song she can wear two hats.
So, after hearing that song, are we ready to brand her country or not? |
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Mark Vinbury
From:
N. Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 2:29 am
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Tony, the reason she was trashed is because of the tune and performance. I happen to like ML but that performance was horrible and she deserved the bad reviews from those of US that expected something different.
She sold most of us on "ME and Charlie"...
Had she or her lable released the tune she did on the TV show as her first out of the gate single, she never would have made it to the BIG show.
thats what we are talking about.
She can wear two hats all she wants, but she got her recognition and made it to the show wearing the OTHER hat.
I went to a POCO show just before Richie left the group years back, no bigger POCO fan than me..the show was horrible. They played maybe a handfull of there POCO tunes the rest was some really loud endless jamming with Rusty on the BEAR...20 minute endless songs of Rusty jamming....
I left...I wasn't only disappointed, I was angry. Evidently so was Richie, he left the band like a month later.
Miranda can end up in the same situation if she doesn't take notice.
t[This message was edited by Tony Prior on 21 November 2006 at 02:34 AM.] |
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Tony Palmer
From:
St Augustine,FL
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 5:33 am
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Tony, I don't disagree with you at all.
I just found it ironic that someone who put on such a poor performance that strayed so far from country as possible ALSO recorded a song which: has steel ALL the way through it, a steel solo, a shuffle rhythmn and a straight country melody....none of which is being done anymore today.
In fact, she recorded a song which is exactly what we're all clamoring for...a traditional country song with lots of steel!!
I can't but help point out the irony.
Here's the rest of the song.
click here[This message was edited by Tony Palmer on 21 November 2006 at 05:44 AM.] |
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Darryl Hattenhauer
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2006 12:55 pm
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Is it just me, or has there really been a huge increase in great CW music in the last fifteen years or so? But there's so much crapola out there, it seems like so many great musicians who don't get into the media would have been stars way back when.
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 24 Nov 2006 9:48 am
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Ray Charles did some country songs, but I'd never call him a "country singer".  Doing one, or even a few country songs, just doesn't rate the designation "country singer", to me, anyway.
Yes, it's a good (but terribly modern-sounding) shuffle-type country number. Many stars and groups put one of them on their CD's now, it's sort the "in" thing to do. The Dixie Chicks did a very similar thing ("Tonight, The Heartache's On Me") on their "Wide Open Spaces" album, about 8 years ago.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but there is just nothing vocally distinctive any more in the current batch of new female singers (The ones who've come along in the past 5 years.) If you've heard one, you've heard 'em all. |
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Theresa Galbraith
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Goodlettsville,Tn. USA
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Posted 27 Nov 2006 4:46 am
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| Miranda and Chicks have alot of nasal going on. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 27 Nov 2006 7:12 am
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| Darryl, it's just you, IMO of course. Right on, Donny |
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John McClung
From:
Olympia WA, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2006 7:59 am
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Donny, go find some Kelly Willis music if you're looking for female singers with some personality and uniqueness. Fabulous Austin singer.
Other faves (though not newbies): Patty Loveless; Trisha Yearwood; Emmylou Harris; Gillian Welch; you know each gal after just one sung note.
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