Thanks, Jack. Funny you should mention Sara Evans in relation to Reeves as
someone I know also said that the vocal quality is similar. Guess I'll have
to check it out.
Yes, Griggs is reminiscent of Cobain...even that video for "You Won't Ever
Be Lonely"
has that dark-tinged, alone in the world and weary poet edge to it.
Tera
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: passenger side <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: Julie Reeves
>I got a quick, cursory listen to the new Julie Reeves disc in the store
this
>morning, and while nothing grabbed me as extraordinary, it was far from
>unpleasant -- I'd like to hear it again a bit more closely.
>
>My first reaction was that it seemed similar to the recent (second) Sara
>Evans disc (which I didn't like as much as Evans' first CD but still think
>it had much to recommend). Reeves seems to have a decent voice and there
>definitely was a country sound. But I got no sense of the songwriting
>whatsoever -- too tough to do while customers were rushing the doors
looking
>for the new Alice Cooper box set<g>. After seeing labels trying to push
>artists emulating Shania and more recently the Dixie Chicks (SheDaisy?), I
>guess you could do worse than try to emulate the recent (if somewhat
modest)
>success of Sara Evans.
>
>I definitely had a more positive reaction to the Reeves disc than I did
last
>week giving the new Andy Griggs CD a similarly cursory listen. That one
>seemed trite as hell to me. (The Kurt Cobain of country, as at least one
>reviewer wrote? Uh, ok -- I guess he at least looks grungy.)
>
>Jack Copeland
>Shawnee, Kansas
>
>At 02:22 AM 4/20/99 -0400, Tera wrote:
>>Has anyone heard this "new" singer's debut, "It's About Time"?
Supposedly,
>>she is being likened to Shania Twain (looks, country/rock stylings etc;);
>>except some are saying that she has a voice of incredible depth and range
>>and possesses a style definitively more country in keeping with her
>>Appalachian roots. Virgin label top guy Hendricks produced this album.
If
>>any of you have heard this, would you mind posting some of your thoughts,
>>please? Thanks.
>>Tera
>
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