What I Deserve

Product description No Description Available. Genre: Popular Music Media Format: Compact Disk Rating: Release Date: 23-FEB-1999 Amazon.com Kelly Willis's first full-length offering since 1993 is one of the better country records you will hear, alternative or otherwise. She covers tunes by the likes of Paul Westerberg, Nick Drake, and Paul Kelly, and cowrites with the Jayhawks' Gary Louris and John Leventhal. If none of the songs quite rises to the heights of the Steve Earle, Jim Lauderdale, and Joe Ely material on her 1991 masterpiece Bang Bang, it is still solid stuff nonetheless. Any new song by Dan Penn ("Got a Feelin' for Ya", cowritten with Chuck Prophet) is already worth the price of admission, but Willis herself penned what may be the best tune here, "Talk Like That," an ode to the comfort of a familiar accent far from home. What I Deserve was recorded on a tight budget without a record deal, which may be why the backing, though well played (especially by guitarist Prophet), verges on sounding unfinished--or, it may be the alternative-country sound she was intentionally seeking. Either way, Willis's sublime voice and delivery reside on a more sophisticated plane. If listening to her throaty warbling of Nick Drake's "Time Has Told Me" or her sultry rendering of the Penn tune doesn't give you "chicken skin," it is time to check your pulse. --Michael Ross Review She offers painful tales of lost love but then expresses the resolve to move on. Hovering between romantic fantasy and deflated realism, Ms. Willis taps a rare subtlety of feeling. -- New York Times What Willis deserves is an audience as big and as passionate as her voice. -- USA Today [Willis] artfully meld[s] the sturm und twang of her country upbringing with the plaintive grit of roots rock. -- Entertainment Weekly From the Label She's been called "The voice of Austin" and "an angel with hell-scorched wings." A singer, guitarist, and song stylist/writer, Kelly Willis possesses a pure, classic country voice once described by Rolling Stone as "throaty, lonesome and blue." Her sultry vocals, "drop-dead natural-blond beauty" (Texas Monthly), and a keen sense of song have gained her press accolades and a legion of fans that span the country and rock genres. What I Deserve, her fourth album and Rykodisc debut, includes songs co-written with John Leventhal (Shawn Colvin) and Gary Louris (Jayhawks, Golden Smog), her interpretations of material by Paul Westerberg, Nick Drake, and Bruce Robison, and musical contributions from Chuck Prophet (Green On Red), John Dee Graham (John Doe, Exene, True Believers), Mark Spencer (Blood Oranges, Cheri Knight, Lisa Loeb), Lloyd Maines (Son Volt, Richard Buckner), and others. It's a subtly strong, warm, and emotive 13-song affairÖit's country music with appeal regardless of where you live.
ASIN: B00000I5EE
VSKU: DBV.B00000I5EE.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Willis, Kelly
Binding: Audio CD
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