Advantages: Imaginatively crafted punky tunes Disadvantages: Doesn't progress greatly from the last, slightly awkward (although paradoxically that is also a positive)
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A major plus point of this story was the humour. It was mainly based on word play, same as the title, but in true Kathy Lette style it is actually quite funny. I actually laughed out loud to a few of the lines in there.
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Product Information for "Love Travels - Kathy Mattea" »
Product details
Title
Love Travels
Performer
Kathy Mattea
Genre
Country
Release Date
29/07/2002
Recomended Retail Price
4.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1997
Label / Distributor
Mercury / Universal Music
Engineer
Ben Wisch
Producer
Kathy Mattea; Ben Wisch
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
731453289925
Catalogue Number
5328992
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Kathy Mattea (vocals); Bob Halligan, Jr. (acoustic guitar, piano); Jim Lauderdale, Bill Cooley, Don Potter (acoustic guitar); Duke Levine (electric guitar); Paul Franklin, Steve Sturm (pedal steel guitar); Stuart Duncan (mandolin); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Chris Carmichael (violin); Steve Lauer (accordion, harmonium); Hunter Lee (whistle, bagpipes); Lionel Cartwright (piano, background vocals); Matt Rollings (piano, Hammond B-3); Ben Wisch (synthesizer, background vocals); Tim Lauer (synthesizer); Edgar Meyer (acoustic bass); James "Hutch" Hutchinson (bass); Abe Laboriel, Jr, (drums, percussion); Jim Keltner (drums); Kirby Shelstad (percussion); Jonatha Brooke, Michael McDonald, Kim Richey (background vocals). Recorded at Woodland Studios, Nashville, Tennessee. Mattea is a tasteful, thoughtful singer who uses country music as a means to an end. Her music is not so much rooted in the country tradition as it is a by-product of it. Mattea's roots are more James Taylor than George Jones, and while steel guitars and 2/4 rhythms abound, LOVE TRAVELS is more an album of stylized Nashville folk-pop than neo-country. To flesh out her introspective vision, Mattea reaches beyond the usual stable of Nashville songwriters to include songs by some honest-to-god singer-songwriter types. Gillian Welch contributes "Patiently Waiting" and "455 Rocket," and they show Welch to be capable of writing outside her own trad-country performance style. Jim Lauderdale's "I'm On Your Side," an unsentimental oath of loyalty, is one of the album's highlights. Janis Ian's moody, minor-key "All Roads To The River" lends a dark side to LOVE TRAVELS. The clean but homey production of Mattea and Ben Wisch creates an atmosphere through which the subtle beauty of the songs can clearly be seen.
Album Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (2/14/97, p.63) - "...By setting lyrics about personal growth against splashes of Celtic fiddle and percussive world beats, Mattea strays from the Nashville norm to turn in her most mature and focused work yet." - Rating: B+
Titles on disc 1
1.
Love Travels
2.
Sending Me Angels
3.
Patiently Waiting
4.
If That's What You Call Love
5.
Further And Further Away
6.
455 Rocket
7.
I'm On Your Side
8.
Bridge
9.
All Roads To The River
10.
End Of The Line
11.
Beautiful Fool
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