The Only Word

The Only Word Artist: Kat Eggleston
Label: Redwing Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 655115541421
EAN: 0655115541421
ASIN: B0009KQOG0


Release Date: 2005-06-07

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Tracks:

  1. Snow
  2. Measure For Measure
  3. Mercy
  4. Impact
  5. Rain
  6. Careless
  7. Hansel & Gretel
  8. Two Houses
  9. Lily Langtree
  10. I Will Set My Good Ship In Order
  11. Hindsight
  12. One More Step
  13. The Only Word/The Clumsy Lover

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Fine, strong return.......2005-09-03

Wish there were '4.5" stars, as I love the album, though I find the 'messagy' one "Impact" not quite as strong, if catchy and heartfelt. Otherwise it's a very solid return for a fine songwriter after a bout with breast cancer. Just as on her other albums, what you have here are a group of literate, articulate & thoughtful songs very well-constructed and presented. True, they are folk & acoustic-- & maybe reference Celtic/British tradition more than American folk too. So not 'flashy' with pop hooks. But it doesn't matter. KE is a very fine guitarist too-- & the music flows beautifully-- with some understated help at times from a few other Chicago musicians. I think my favorite might be "Hansel and Gretel": here she somehow weaves wondering "how many years older they were when they came out of the forest" with her own reminiscence of being 'lost' in love & the confrontation of being together, apart, familiar and strange simultaneously: "When light strikes nothing familiar/There is no darkness so deep/no silence so heavy/As one broken only when strange voices speak./. . . Losing each other/There's no distance greater than a step or a breath away." "Careless" has a slightly more pop & country aspect, a rueful confession about how words can wound & change love so easily: "I'm an arrow it's true/With a gift for words/And I try to watch my every move/Still I've been careless, careless in every way." "Rain" is based on a true story of her father's childhood trying to tell other kids about rain who had never seen or felt it in Dust Bowl Oklahoma. There's a lot here-- one of those albums IMO beyond style or fad, just a troubadour with a guitar (& some fine accompanists at times) telling things as she sees it. That's enough IMO.

Music CD:

  1. All Day Every Day ~ Bill Hilly Band
  2. Under The Volcano ~ Stefan Grossman, John Renbourn
  3. Morning Star ~ Muzsikas and Marta Sebestyen
  4. Unfamiliar Moon ~ Vance Gilbert
  5. Liz Carroll ~ Liz Carroll
  6. Remember Me ~ Tim & Mollie O'Brien
  7. Judy Henske/High Flying Bird ~ Judy Henske
  8. Definitive Collection ~ June Tabor
  9. Frost ~ Kirsty McGee
  10. Negro Spirituals Sung By River Side ~ Various Artists

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Another Place ~ Margie Adam

Hyperactive ~ Savage

These Days Complete 2cd & Book ~ Bon Jovi

Chillout Sessions ~ Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Viaggi Organizzati ~ Lucio Dalla

20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection (Eco Friendly Packaging) ~ B.B. King

One Family Cantorial Concert

The Meaning of Life ~ Monty Python

Born Slippy Nuxx ~ Underworld