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jeff_worrell January 1 2008, 18:56:04 UTC
I finally got to hear "Teardrops On My Guitar" at the weekend (it's only when I tune into Paul Gambaccini's US charts show that I get to hear any country at all - this is also the only place I've ever heard Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley*). One play was insufficient obv, but it sounded promising enough that I'll probably go buy her album now.

*I know, I know, youtube.com - but my online time is too precious

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koganbot January 1 2008, 20:18:24 UTC
I'd put "Teardrops" as the fourth or fifth best on the album (which made my last year's Pazz & Jop).

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jeff_worrell January 3 2008, 12:12:55 UTC
Have now acquired the LP - only £9 in HMV, not bad for an import - and had much fun decoding the secret messages in the lyrics last night. Based on one listen, I'd say the album is 50:50 great:hmmm. But it seems to be a good entry point into country for non-experts like me; very much a cross-breed with the teenpop confessional records I know and like.

I'd put "Teardrops" as the fourth or fifth best on the album
That sounds about right. "Tim McGraw", "Picture to Burn", "Tied Together With A Smile" and "Our Song" were the standouts for me on first play.

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Teendrops on my guitar koganbot January 3 2008, 12:51:40 UTC
I'd subtract "Our Song" from that list (haven't warmed up to it at all, though it's the current single, and Xhuxk likes it more than he likes "Teardrops On My Guitar"), would add "A Place In This World" (Taylor Swift as Jordan Pruitt!), "Cold As You," "The Outside," "Stay Beautiful," and especially "Should've Said No" (a track that got me three points in the League Of Pop). (This leaves "Mary's Song" as the one other song on the outside looking in ( ... )

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koganbot January 3 2008, 12:59:14 UTC
Speaking of country bands you might find accessible, you should try Little Big Town; I'm ambivalent about them, but their best stuff is like a cross between Lynyrd-Allman and California-era Fleetwood Mac. No one in the band comes close to singing as well as Fleetwood Mac, however. I reviewed them back in my Voice days. And we've argued about them a bit on rolling country - their most recent album was Xhuxk's number one of any kind for 2007.

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