2007-07-23
Eilen (rhymes with feelin') Jewell checks in with her second release. She's based in Boston, but her hometown is Boise, Idaho, where dad and mom weaned her on Bob Dylan and Howlin' Wolf records. She does a Dylan number on this set (#11), but critics have most commonly compared her to Gillian Welch. I don't know that I'd go that far in comparison, but Eilen does a bit of "atmosphere" about her songs that give them a depth of feelin' (hey, that rhymes). I liked the Charlie Rich nugget "Thanks a Lot" (#4) and "Heartache Boulevard" (#5) was impressed by her putting music to the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. for the song "How Long" (#8). - MJVDDIGNEY FIGNUS
Trouble on the Levee
NEIL YOUNG
Sugar Mountain Live At Canterbury House 1968
RALPH STANLEY
A Distant Land To Roam
Flagship Romance
Fee Fie Foh Fum
SOUTHSSIDE JOHNNY & THE POOR FOOLS
SONGS FROM THE BARN
Vandaveer
Grace & Speed
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