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Freakwater - Old Paint   

Freakwater makes a brand of acoustic-guitar-and-pedal-steel alt.country that's inspired, partly, by old-time country, though but by no means slavishly. For one thing, the group's frontwomen, Catherine Irwin and Janet Bean, write songs from thoroughly modern points of view. (The Carter Family never sang about slitting their wrists.) For another, Irwin's and Bean's striking harmonies are so ragged as to go flat (purposely?). Usually this strident approach only enhances the lonely poignance of the songs, but occasionally they push the technique to annoyance. Maybe it's no surprise then that, on Old Paint, the best numbers generally dispense with harmonies altogether, leaving one singer's haunting voice to weep all alone. --David Cantwell

Tracks

  • 1)   Gravity
  • 2)   Smoking Daddy
  • 3)   Gone To Stay
  • 4)   Little Black Train
  • 5)   Waitress Song
  • 6)   My One Desire
  • 7)   White Rose
  • 8)   Out Of This World
  • 9)   Kentucky House
  • 10)   Hero/Heroine
  • 11)   Ugly Man
  • 12)   Burying Geraldine

Track listing above is from 1995-Jan-01 | Germany | City Slang - EFA 04965-1 LP

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