As soon as I read this I nodded: is a lot like Ashlee on Bittersweet World when she's in '40s pop-blues Vicky Valentine mode, stuff like "Boys," "What I've Become," and "Murder."
By the way, did you ever see this?
Beyond his music and personality, the association with Lambert has helped shape Shelton in fans' minds - even if it was her simultaneously released "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" that kept his 2007 album "Pure B.S." out of the No. 1 country spot, and even though, Shelton says, "musically she and I don't see eye to eye."
He's the obsessive sort of traditional country fanatic who'll "spend $300 a week at Ernest Tubb Record Shop" when he's in Nashville. And where Lambert swears by Ashlee Simpson, Shelton would usually rather listen to John Conlee. "Startin' Fires" concludes with the pair dueting on a spare waltz about teen deflowering called "Bare Skin Rug," with crickets chirping in the background. --from "Ladies' Choice: Blake Shelton" by Chuck Eddy, Billboard.biz, Nov. 8, 2008
Speaking of Ashlee's '40s pop-blues proclivities, I forget if I ever emailed you about Lucy Woodward's 2010 album, Hooked, which is heaps better than her 2007 album, Lucy Woodward Is... Hot And Bothered. That one had some of those proclivities, but got caught in its mannerisms, while this time she's having much more of a blast with the mannerisms, including what sound like Ashlee's Gwennish pouts. Lots of the tracks are streamed on her Website; best are "Too Much To Live For," "Ragdoll" (which makes me think a bit of "Ragdoll" but more of "Boys"), "Slow Recovery," and "This Empty Room." So, something of a return to form, and a return to reminding me of Ashlee (or vice versa), though this time in a different way.
By the way, did you ever see this?
Beyond his music and personality, the association with Lambert has helped shape Shelton in fans' minds - even if it was her simultaneously released "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" that kept his 2007 album "Pure B.S." out of the No. 1 country spot, and even though, Shelton says, "musically she and I don't see eye to eye."
He's the obsessive sort of traditional country fanatic who'll "spend $300 a week at Ernest Tubb Record Shop" when he's in Nashville. And where Lambert swears by Ashlee Simpson, Shelton would usually rather listen to John Conlee. "Startin' Fires" concludes with the pair dueting on a spare waltz about teen deflowering called "Bare Skin Rug," with crickets chirping in the background.
--from "Ladies' Choice: Blake Shelton" by Chuck Eddy, Billboard.biz, Nov. 8, 2008
Speaking of Ashlee's '40s pop-blues proclivities, I forget if I ever emailed you about Lucy Woodward's 2010 album, Hooked, which is heaps better than her 2007 album, Lucy Woodward Is... Hot And Bothered. That one had some of those proclivities, but got caught in its mannerisms, while this time she's having much more of a blast with the mannerisms, including what sound like Ashlee's Gwennish pouts. Lots of the tracks are streamed on her Website; best are "Too Much To Live For," "Ragdoll" (which makes me think a bit of "Ragdoll" but more of "Boys"), "Slow Recovery," and "This Empty Room." So, something of a return to form, and a return to reminding me of Ashlee (or vice versa), though this time in a different way.
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