Trailer Bride: High Seas (CD on Bloodshot)

Band: Trailer Bride
Label: Bloodshot
Title: High Seas

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Band:Trailer Bride
Title:High Seas
Reviewed By:Maarten Schiethart
Date Published:17/12/2001

Label:Bloodshot
Format:CD
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What has gotten into me? A change in the weather and all at once I'm into swampy country blues. From North Carolina or thereabouts, it's Trailer Bride with their third album 'High Seas'. It came with the mail just as the temparature was starting to rise .I managed to lean over while listening to it and then I read on the CD sleeve that 'High Seas' is meant to be heard over the headphones while staring at cypress trees. I won't be able to live up to that but can prepare for the next best thing. Get me a bottle of JD.

Trailer Bride delivers a genuinely great collection of heartsung country and western ballads, which thrive on melancholy. They also offer much more than one-dimensional Tennessee popularism. On 'High Seas' you'll also find twisted rock'n roll, which is campy yet crampy. 'High Seas' doesn't have a stand out track, but rides the high tide on a flood of excellence. Compositions are heartfelt, and slightly under produced. A banjo workis all of the time. When the itchy twang accompanies singer Melissa Swingle, no matter how spooky the sound, 'High Seas' become uplifting. She has one of the most distinctive voices in C&W apart from Pauline Frazer, putting the Big O back into Country & Western. A star in Birmingham and Houston already, Melissa's about to win over the entire globe with classics like 'Ghost of Mae West'.

Track Listing:

01) Jesco
02) High Seas
03) Under Your Spell
04) Itchin' For You
05) Ghost Of Mae West
06) Wilderness
07) Crickets
08) Thankful Dirt
09) Barcelona
10) Drift In D
11) All Thine
12) Run Rosie Run
13) Bird Feet Feelings

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