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MicShazam

I like folk music. I've got several things, but they don't sound anything like country. Vashti Bunyan, for example.

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Have you heard this?

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MicShazam

No, but I think I recognize the cover from one of your threads. Probably "Listen With Trollheart". Listening to the track, it's funny how it doesn't strike me as folk at all until the very end. The rest has a very indie pop/rock vibe to it. I guess it's especilly the melodies that don't feel very folky to me, even though there's a bit of folky instrumentation in the background.

I don't care massively about nitpicking genres.

But when I say that I like folk, I usually refer to stuff like Joan Baez, Bunyan, Loreena McKennitt or something more like this:



It's a huge and varied genre, so there's room for many approaches, just like with metal. Not to forget folk metal is also a thing!

Psy-Fi

All of the songs sounded well played and well produced but they just bored me and Nancy's vocals didn't do anything for me either. Best rating I can give this one is a "meh."

6/10

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Neapolitan

I was of the opposite opinion. I thought even though Nanci doesnt' have a very strong voice at least it was cute. She sings soft with a slight country twang but doesn't over do it. At time she glides her notes like Judee Sill. I thought the vocals were sweet. While I like a few of the musicians that appear on the album I was keen on the delivery. I thought they played it safe probably cause it was more orient toward Country Pop.

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Her voice just didn't resonate with me for some reason I can't quite explain. Maybe it was the cuteness or the twang or her delivery or a combination of the three. Not bad, just not my style. They did seem to be playing it safe for the Country Pop crowd, though, and that just made it seem too watered-down for my taste.

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MicShazam

First time I tried listening to this, I was absolutely not in the mood and I gave up pretty quickly.

Turned out the album wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be and not as country leaning as I expected. The first track is a pretty good example of a style of country that I can't stand, though. I get calling most of this album folk, but the first track, with its instrumentation, its backing vocals, and even the vocal melody... it sounds like country. The kind of soft, radio oriented Nashville country that my parents have been boring me to tears with for the last 15 years, no less.

"Do Re Mi" is even worse. I hate that song. Maybe hard to understand, depending on where you're come at this from, but for me, that's one tremendously unappealing song and it exemplifies a lot of traits that are the very reason why I dodge and roll every time a country song is near.

Much of the rest of the album fares better. Nanci has a sweet voice, although nothing exciting. The music is well played, but designed to be inoffensive background filler. No substance, but it's nice enough. I can feel very, very engaged by something like Joan Baez's first few albums - much of the songs on which come from the same source as the songs on this album generally do. But where Baez is brimming with passion and the music is quiet but powerful, this Nanci Griffith album is just sort of flatlining.

In the abstract, I kind of get what people see in this, but it's a fact that it fails to light any sort of fire under yours truly. I can get along with "boring" singer/songwriter, folk and jazz of the "mild and inoffensive" variety in some cases, but most of any of those styles just bores me.

For me, this album sadly fits the "meh" category rather perfectly.

Sorry to crap on yet another album choice of yours, Troll! If it's any consolation, I guarantee you that everyone will hate my upcoming album. Feel free to punish me with 2-3 albums that you want to force me to listen to and review in my journal. I'll do it just as an apology for the rudeness, Trollheart