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Wow...chalk up Lisa O'Kane as a voice that 'must' be heard by the masses. The California mountain-born O'Kane is as rootsy as you get - a nice mix of very early career Suzy Bogguss and Canadian traditionalist Cindy Church. Am I Too Blue is Lisa O'Kane's debut disc...and hopefully it reaches people who like to listen to hear "goood" music!!
Produced in California studios by Edward Tree, and utilizing West Coast musicians (several out of the Dwight Yoakam camp); the music is devoid of any of the current Nashville trappings... in effect, this is "loose" in all the right places; and you can sense that the singer (O'Kane) is like a free bird, simply enjoying her ability to sing, without trying to sound like the frustrated opera divas that 'country' music is churning out these days.
The song selection is a nice mix of cover songs (old and new) and some original material. The album opens and closes with a Lisa O'Kane composition from opposite ends of the 'sentiment' scale. The show opener, Romance and Finance, is a bumpy, percussion-driven tale; while the closer, The Valley, is a soft lullaby inspired by O'Kanes California mountain roots. Both tunes work.
The 'cover' songs are nothing short of sizzling...ranging from a raunchy re-do of K.T. Olsin's Wall of Tears, to John Prine's All The Way With You(from his 1993 Lucky Dogs album; two Emmylou Harris album cuts (Like An Old-Fashioned Waltz and Lovin' You Again); and two Lucinda Williams tunes (Pineola and the title track, Am I Too Blue).
Listen also for a truly magnificent version of the Hank Williams classic My Sweet Love Ain't Around (ironically, it's a classic that was also included on Suzy Bogguss' 1989 debut album)...and, as good as all this is, there's still a topper in Wanting, Wanting You (a song written by recently deceased bluegrass artist Randall Hylton). Lisa O'Kanes' smoky-blues delivery of the song rates among the vocal highlight of the year (so far), and the 20-second bass intro in the song's arrangement is testimony to how different this record is. It's the record that many in Nashville wish they were allowed to make!!
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