Flame

Flame Artist: The Mary Janes
Label: Flat Earth
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 707824012324
EAN: 0707824012324
ASIN: B00005ATDP


Release Date: 2003-01-14

Flame


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Tracks:

  1. Junie Moon
  2. Flame
  3. Better Way
  4. Be Careful
  5. Telescope
  6. All I Want
  7. Lucky Stars
  8. Downtown
  9. Bruuses And Breaks
  10. Subtract The Night
  11. Say It Two Times
  12. Vertigo
  13. Travellers
  14. Free Girl Now

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Flame burns with passion........2001-05-17

Flame is a passionate follow-up to the band's critically acclaimed debut, Record No. 1. These new songs find lead Mary Jane Janas Hoyt securing hope despite harrowing life experiences. The album arcs from the joyful "Junie Moon", through the brutal twin tales of abuse and betrayal in "Bruises and Breaks" and "Subtract the Night" and finally comes full circle with a full-on cover of Tom Petty's "Free Girl Now" that finds Hoyt boldly declaring a certain kind of freedom from, and victory over, her demons.

Ms. Hoyt is most noticeably joined on the recording by violinists and pedal steel guitar. Both dueling string parts and prominent pedal steel give the music a rootsy feel in the vein of Lucinda Williams and Whiskeytown, but in this instance, comparisons don't tell the whole story.

This is an album well worth the 60 minute sit it requires to take it all in.

5 out of 5 stars This "Flame" is a Scorcher.......2001-05-03

All of the promise The Mary Janes shoed on their first album "Record No. 1" has been delivered with their sophomore effort, "Flame." Lead singer and songwriter Janas Holt is a talent who would ready for the big time if rock radio had the slightest bit of imagination. Holt is a former member of The Vulgar Boatmen, another criminally overlooked band than wrote great jangly guitar rock. The Mary Janes sound has been described as Hank Williams meets the Velvet Underground, but that's a superficial description. The band adds a lot of violin and pedal steel, but the result sounds not at all like traditional country music.

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