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Artist: DQE , and Grace Braun
Label: Dark Beloved Cloud Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 2 UPC: 723724480827 EAN: 0723724480827 ASIN: B00006JOC3 Release Date: 2002-10-15 |
I'm Your Girl
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Double the Fun! (And sadness, loss, pain, joy, etc...).......2003-01-07
How wrong I was. Yes, the names of the 37 tracks sprawl out on the rear insert of this 2 cd set, but that's all that is sprawling. There is nothing to fear here, so the track-ora-phobics among us can calm down. This 2 cd set plays so effortlessly you hardly notice. It reminds me of the first Lord of the Rings, after three hours you were so involved and loving it that it felt like a half hour had gone by when it was over. And you were ready for more! I'm not sure if Grace is going to be doing a 2 cd set for her next album, but who knows?
Both cds are titled "I'm Your Girl," the first disc being styled as a stripped-down, acoustically-minded affair. The second disc is the stark, raving, alt-core lunacy of DQE, brash and outgoing, but bridled by an earnestness that is very appealing upon repeated listens. All I know is, I've been listening to this darned cd just about every day, and humming many of the tracks when I'm not listening to it.
It's in my top 5 albums of the year, along with Impasse by Buckner, YHF by Wilco, Yoshimi by the Lips. It will be a crying shame if this release is considered so "niche" that many people stay away from it. Grace Braun is such a vital songwriter, and like Richard Buckner, is really so vital that she should be commanding far more attention than she is getting.
Music Album:
Music CD
What a Little Moonlight Can Do ~ Lew Tabackin Quartet
Witch Doctor ~ Chet Baker and the Lighthouse All-Stars
Trio/Round Midnight ~ Claude Williamson
Doin' the Thing (At the Village Gate) ~ Horace Silver
Rumba Tropical ~ Armando Or%C3%A9fiche