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kelly willis
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by Johnny Loftus You just have to feel bad for Kelly Willis. Gorgeous and rambunctious, with a voice featuring both traits in equal measure, Willis spent the early '90s issuing well-appointed country-rock collections that went curiously, damnably unnoticed. 1993's eponymous effort was no different. Produced by Don Was, the album accessed the same smart sound that made Dwight Yoakam a star, but all it did for Willis was get her dropped from MCA. Fortunately, by decade's end, persistence, patience, and a streak of good old stubborn pride had helped land her a new deal with Ryko, and a good bit of the attention she'd always deserved. Willis presaged all of this with one of the slower burning tracks on the 1993 release. &There's so much to take for granted when life is going well,& she sings on &I Know Better Now.& &When the tides will turn no one can tell.& The song's touches of mandolin and warm Hammond organ are typical of the album's sound, which is just as comfortable with the raggedy guitar and hoochie coo of &Take It All Out on You& as it is with the wistful, mature pop of &Get Real& (a song that helped write the sonic blueprint for the later crossover success of Faith Hill.) Willis' vocal style is like granules of sand in a clear mountain stream, or a torn T-shirt in the back row of church -- as pretty as it can be, her voice never quite loses the signature of her youthful turn as a barroom belter. In retrospect, it's nearly impossible to see how Kelly Willis wasn't a success. But she seemed to take it all in stride. Her sighing duet with Kevin Welch on his &That'll Be Me& applies well to the two singers' country outsider status. &You and I were gypsies born under the same sign,& Welch croons over a dusty pedal steel guitar. But by the time Willis joins him on the title line, you've stopped feeling bad for Willis' run of fool's gold and started seeing a diamond in the rough.
| Alias | kelly willis |
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| Extra | kelly willis |
| Name | kelly willis |
| 原始名称 | Kelly Willis |
| 发行时间 | 1993-02-14 |
| 名称 | kelly willis |
| 唱片公司 | mca |
| 收藏数 | 6 |
| 歌手 | kelly willis |
| 类别 | 录音室专辑 |
| 语言 | 英语 |
| 风格 | 当代乡村 contemporary country |