Tara nevins wood and stone

Nevins’ second solo album (her first since ’s Mule to Ride) hangs on to the rootsy underpinnings of her musical day job with Donna the Buffalo, but cuts a looser, more soulful country groove than does her long-time group. Without a co-vocalist sharing the microphone, Nevins’ voice carries the album, and without a second writer, her songs stretch out across all her influences, including fiddle- and steel-lined country, second line rhythms and the Cajun sounds of her earlier band, the Heartbeats. The latter appear together on the energetic fiddle tune “Nothing Really,” and individually on several other tracks. Additional guests include Levon Helm (drumming on two tracks), Allison Moorer (tight trio harmony with Teresa Williams on “The Wrong Side”) and Jim Lauderdale (harmony on the acoustic “Snowbird”). Producer Larry Campbell fits each song with a unique groove and adds superb electric and pedal steel guitar. The girlishness in Nevins’ voice and the layering of double-tracked vocals add a hint of the Brill Building, which is a terrific twist on the rustic arrangements. The lyrics cast an eye on relationships that refuse to live up to their potential, with music that underlines the certainty of a woman who will no longer suffer others’ indecision, inaction or infidelity. Three

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Wood And Remove by Town Nevins

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10 remark the 13 songs be adamant the sticker album are originals. Tara opens with “Wood And Stone” which channels memories clasp everyone&#;s minority. “All I Ever Needed” comes split as a Cajun-Country toe-tapper. “You&#;r

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Tara Nevins-Wood and Stone (Sugar Hill Records, May 3)

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&#; Liner notes from &#;Mule to Ride.&#;

I repeat the liner notes not so much to harken back to that most excellent record, but to re-affirm what I see as Tara&#;s emotional and intellectual commitment to the music, her life in music.

It has been twelve years since Tara Nevins&#; initial solo album, &#;Mule to Ride.&#; It was steeped in the tradition, with only a few originals, featuring a veritable who&#;s who: Ralph Stanley, Mike Seeger, Don Rigsby, James Shelton and Dirk Powell. True to its roots and its credit, it was recorded in southwest Virginia, and it showed. 

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