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Karen Jonas
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Title:
The Southwest Sky and Other Dreams
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Band:
Karen Jonas
Title:
The Southwest Sky and Other Dreams
Reviewed By:
Helen Tipping
Date Published:
06/10/2020
Label:
Karen Jonas
Format:
CD
Release Year:
2020
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Karen Jonas is an Americana singer-songwriter from Fredericksburg, Virginia. This is her fifth album, and the first studio only album with previous albums being a mix of studio and live recordings.
Despite the Americana description, there is still a bit too much country going on for my tastes. Nevertheless she tells a good story, and all the songs are based on her experiences travelling around on tour, picking up characters she sees and weaving a story around them.
The album works best for me when the songs are melancholy, and tip a stetson to Patsy Cline, rather than the staple country sounds. ‘Pink Leather Boots’, has less of a country sound to it and more of a bluegrass element. ‘Maybe You'd Hear Me Then’ is the stand out track for me. It earns the Americana tag, rather than C&W, and ‘Farmer John’, a blues song about the end of a relationship - as befits any blues song - with input from both protagonists in the split, also holds my interest.
The album starts with the C&W tracks, and I think I would have turned off before some of the better tracks, had I not been obliged to listen to it all in order to review it. That would have been a shame, as I would have missed the more interesting songs.
Track Listing:
01) The Last Cowboy (At the Bowling Alley)
02) Out in Palm Tree Paradise
03) Tuesday
04) Pink Leather Boots
05) Maybe You'd Hear Me Then
06) Be Sweet to Me
07) Farmer John
08) Barely Breathing
09) Better Days
10) Don't Blink Honey
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