Time: 51:11
Size: 117.2 MB
Styles: Electric/acoustic blues, Alt rock
Year: 2005
Art: Front
[5:13] 1. Dry As A Bone
[5:04] 2. Shades Of Blue
[5:29] 3. End Of Our Line
[3:21] 4. Afraid To Love
[4:47] 5. Just To Be With You
[5:34] 6. Feels Like Family
[4:33] 7. When I See You
[4:15] 8. Livin' In A Dream
[4:53] 9. Setting Son
[3:38] 10. Oahu Song
[4:18] 11. Extra Mile
Take notice and move over, you fleet-fingered soulful string benders, bottleneck blues barons, lap steel Lotharios, there’s a new Mosrite maven in town, and with her sophomore release, Feels Like Family, she’s kickin’ ass and takin’ names and you didn’t even make the list.
Well, okay, maybe she’s not going to make you forget Duane Allman or toss your Sonny Landreth discs, but even in the stubbornly and overwhelmingly male-dominated world of rock and roll, you do not listen to Lauren Ellis and think, whoa, she’s good for a woman; from note one all you think is, damn, she’s goood! She measures up to anyone you can name. Ellis has truly found her voice with this release. She’s not blessed with a technically great instrument or much range, but she’s singing mostly in a lower register than before and it endows the songs with much more emotion and authenticity. Her vocals now match the songs so perfectly it takes a while to dawn on you that she isn’t holding many notes or venturing much past her limited range. Yet her singing is a very large part of her success on this album. She could find herself in the odd position of another blues player I’m sure she admires, Eric Clapton, who sold tons of records to a whole generation more because of his singing than his playing.
So what about the songs? She’s a killer player, a convincing and seductive singer, but in service of what? A damn fine collection of tunes, that’s what, of which she wrote all but two. These are the kind of songs that grow on you with repeated listenings, and become your friends.
Well, okay, maybe she’s not going to make you forget Duane Allman or toss your Sonny Landreth discs, but even in the stubbornly and overwhelmingly male-dominated world of rock and roll, you do not listen to Lauren Ellis and think, whoa, she’s good for a woman; from note one all you think is, damn, she’s goood! She measures up to anyone you can name. Ellis has truly found her voice with this release. She’s not blessed with a technically great instrument or much range, but she’s singing mostly in a lower register than before and it endows the songs with much more emotion and authenticity. Her vocals now match the songs so perfectly it takes a while to dawn on you that she isn’t holding many notes or venturing much past her limited range. Yet her singing is a very large part of her success on this album. She could find herself in the odd position of another blues player I’m sure she admires, Eric Clapton, who sold tons of records to a whole generation more because of his singing than his playing.
So what about the songs? She’s a killer player, a convincing and seductive singer, but in service of what? A damn fine collection of tunes, that’s what, of which she wrote all but two. These are the kind of songs that grow on you with repeated listenings, and become your friends.
Feels Like Family mc
Feels Like Family zippy