* ALBUM REVIEWS | SHORT TAKES | ALTERNATIVE COUNTRY
Karla Peterson
* 01/21/99
The San Diego Union-Tribune
(Copyright 1999)
* ALTERNATIVE COUNTRY: Hazeldine, "Orphans" (All Swoll Music) * * *
Since this might be the only time songs by Gram Parsons and
Radio-head end up on the same album, it is a relief to report that
Albuquerque's Hazeldine will have you drinking tears out of a shot
glass and banging the bar for more. On this all-covers album, Shawn
Barton and Tonya Lamm's haunted harmonies illuminate songs from the
inside, giving Peter Gabriel's delicately cracked "Cuckoo Cocoon" a
wraith-like glow, and turning bleak numbers from Radiohead ("Lucky")
and the Mekons ("Wild and Blue") into gems of dark, unsettling
beauty.
