05-02-2023, 15:20
AMANDA SHIRES - Take It Like A Man
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Missed this when it was released in late July 2022. Can't call it country - or folk - or rock, so here it is. She's an interesting artist - like a ribald version of Dolly Parton - plays a mean fiddle, and has a Masters degree in poetry. Good voice too. Check out these lyrics ...
Like a common loon I started hearing birds
Birdsong everywhere a lark in the shower
From the night to the morning after
Warblers and wrens, hymn at my throat
Shook and quivering, I could have crowed
Oh I could have crowed
I was snared by your wrist
I know what the cost is
The octaves of consequence
I know the cost of flight is landing
And I know I could take it like a man
I know I could take it like a man
Falls of fascinations the sky was leaking light
Like your eyes do that shipwrecked expression
I need more words for blue
Trilling in the tree the way I measure you
Fractured thirteenths that grin that you give
When you want me to quit
Falling further and falcon swift
I know what the cost is
In the octaves of consequence
I know the cost of flight is landing
And I know I can take it like a man
I know I can take it like a man
I know I can take it like a man
There are some tracks are that gentle, some not. She's saying what she wants to say - no holds barred - supported by very capable fellow musicians, arranged the strings herself and is responsible for all the writing either solely or in collaboration. Sometimes a little old timey and sometimes right up to the minute. Wonder if MH might be inclined to this album??
She's married to Jason Isbell and has appeared on several albums with him - he's on this one too along with several others. I have noticed and liked what appears to be intuitive playing of the violin on her part - live at least. I'm not sure I'd add this to my collection but there are a couple of numbers here that will stay with me, for sure.
The lead - "Hawk for the Dove" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmotVv9vjq0
The final track - "Everything has it's Time" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGEjct2bDDI
And the the title track ...
Missed this when it was released in late July 2022. Can't call it country - or folk - or rock, so here it is. She's an interesting artist - like a ribald version of Dolly Parton - plays a mean fiddle, and has a Masters degree in poetry. Good voice too. Check out these lyrics ...
Like a common loon I started hearing birds
Birdsong everywhere a lark in the shower
From the night to the morning after
Warblers and wrens, hymn at my throat
Shook and quivering, I could have crowed
Oh I could have crowed
I was snared by your wrist
I know what the cost is
The octaves of consequence
I know the cost of flight is landing
And I know I could take it like a man
I know I could take it like a man
Falls of fascinations the sky was leaking light
Like your eyes do that shipwrecked expression
I need more words for blue
Trilling in the tree the way I measure you
Fractured thirteenths that grin that you give
When you want me to quit
Falling further and falcon swift
I know what the cost is
In the octaves of consequence
I know the cost of flight is landing
And I know I can take it like a man
I know I can take it like a man
I know I can take it like a man
There are some tracks are that gentle, some not. She's saying what she wants to say - no holds barred - supported by very capable fellow musicians, arranged the strings herself and is responsible for all the writing either solely or in collaboration. Sometimes a little old timey and sometimes right up to the minute. Wonder if MH might be inclined to this album??
She's married to Jason Isbell and has appeared on several albums with him - he's on this one too along with several others. I have noticed and liked what appears to be intuitive playing of the violin on her part - live at least. I'm not sure I'd add this to my collection but there are a couple of numbers here that will stay with me, for sure.
The lead - "Hawk for the Dove" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmotVv9vjq0
The final track - "Everything has it's Time" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGEjct2bDDI
And the the title track ...
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