2014-04-28
Singer/Songwriter Radney Foster is hard to classify. First impression: country singer. He's got the accent, but not quite a twang, he's from Texas, and he's had country hits. Click on his website, and the title bar says "Americana Artist". Some of the cuts on Everything I Should Have Said will stand by themselves as folk. He takes things slow, and contemplative and mostly quiet. He mostly sings wistful love songs while strumming his guitar.
One exception is "Not In My House", an uptempo electrified cry for tolerance and a declaration that he won't use the f-word (and in fact, the word is not used in the song, you have to pay close attention to puzzle it out).
--Gerald Etkind
THE KAMIKAZE HEARTS
Oneida Road
Cali Shaw
Under The Olive Tree
RADNEY FOSTER
Everything I Should Have Said
BEN AND BRUNO
My Mother's Hand
RICHARD SCHINDELL
SOUTH OF DELIA
THE 23 STRING BAND
bangin' and clangin'
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