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Kellie Pickler - Kellie Pickler
| Billboard |
| Teamed with new producer Chris Lindsey and with more time to create than she did in the rush following her run on "American Idol," Kellie Pickler's second album is another solid step toward country stardom. She recently told Billboard that when it comes to her songwriting, "It's like you're reading one of my journals," and that certainly comes across on the set, which is laden with relationship ups and (mostly) downs. "Somebody to Love Me," which Pickler says comes from "the darkest time of my life," is aching and sincere with production to match. "One Last Time," about an intimate goodbye, is another personal revelation....full text |
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| Latimes |
| Some people think folk music is more honest than other forms, but it's also rich territory for alter egos. Bob Dylan called himself Blind Boy Grunt to continue making folk recordings as he was heading toward pop stardom; his early mentor, the Brooklyn-born Elliott Adnopoz, became a Wild Westerner as Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Tom Morello's folk persona, the Nightwatchman, is more superhero than cowboy or bluesman, but that's appropriate for a guy best known for working miracles with an effects pedal....full text |
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| Nytimes |
| Here’s a record by a folk singer who is the opposite of an unhappy, delicate creature, who has no concern at all for the concept of the beautiful loser, who carries no loftiness or obscurantism about his own talent, who speaks to adults with the same clarity and care that one might speak to children, who believes that everything is done better in groups and yet puts enormous faith in the value of his individual effort....full text |
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