Amy LaVere-Runaways Diary-CD-FLAC-2014-THEVOiD

                              DRIFT INTO THE VOID
 Info   
     Artist  | Amy LaVere
     Title   | Runaway's Diary
     Genre   | Folk-Rock                            Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 38:21
     Label   | Archer Records                       Store   | 2014
     Catalog | ARR-31961                            Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 814  kbps                            Size    | 241.37 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Rabbit                                                      5:00
     02. Last Rock N Roll Boy To Dance                               3:08
     03. Big Sister                                                  4:09
     04. Self Made Orphan                                            3:57
     05. Where I Lead Me                                             3:26
     06. Snowflake                                                   2:31
     07. How                                                         3:43
     08. Don't Go Yet John                                           2:05
     09. Lousy Pretender                                             3:30
     10. Dark Moon                                                   2:38
     11. I'll Be Home Soon                                           3:30
     12. Reprise                                                     0:44
 Notes  
     While Amy LaVere's voice may have the high, breathy tone of a young
     girl, she brings to her music the emotional peaks and valleys of a
     grown woman who has certainly seen her share of the world, and it's
     hard not to believe that her adventurous life has informed her work.
     LaVere was born Amy Fant, in a small town near the border of Texas
     and Louisiana to parents who were part-time musicians. Her family's
     nomadic life led LaVere to live in 13 different places before she
     finished high school, and when her folks finally settled in Detroit,
     she rejected the classic country sounds they doted on - Johnny Cash,
     Dolly Parton, and Willie Nelson were their favorites - in favor of
     punk rock. LaVere played drums and sang in a Motor City punk band
     called Last Minute, but after graduating she grew restless and
     headed back to Louisiana, which turned out to be a brief stop on the
     way to a job in Nashville, working for a music management company.
     Since she began recording, singer, songwriter, and bassist Amy
     LaVere has been adept at turning the stuff of her autobiography into
     fine songs. On 2011's "Stranger Me", she detailed her own loss,
     grief, and heartbreak in one of the finest breakup albums in recent
     memory. With "Runaway's Diary", she goes back to the well, but with
     a storyteller's twist. This is a road album. It deals with the
     various kinds of gritty events that occur along the highway in the
     life of a soul with a desperate need to keep moving. LaVere wrote
     eight of this set's 12 songs and enlisted Luther Dickinson to
     produce. He and Will Sexton play guitars; Sharde Thomas and Shawn
     Zorn are her drummers (often simultaneously); she handles the bass,
     and Tim Regan plays various keyboards. Her music is deeply rooted in
     Memphis rockabilly, folk, country, and retro pop. Among its finest
     songs are the tender, poetic "Rabbit," that uses the life of Steven
     Gene Wold (aka blues singer Seasick Steve) for source material -
     though LaVere ran away when she was younger, too. Its sparse snare
     and tom-tom drumming, fingerpicked electric guitars, atmospheric
     Mellotron, and Wurlitzer piano buoy her bowed bassline and mournful
     voice with empathetic supporting vocals from Thomas.
     Jim Sparke's baritone sax plays a key role on the shuffling, sultry,
     minor-key strut of "Last Rock N Roll Boy To Dance," a rootsy teen
     rebellion song from a woman's point of view. "Self-Made Orphan" is
     strolling rockabilly with twanging Telecasters and honky tonk piano.
     It's a heartbreaking rebel's anthem about the unwillingness - and
     inability - to accept unconditional love. The deep well of
     loneliness in "Snowflake," with its single tom-tom, piano, and
     interwoven acoustic guitars is as wrenching as it is militant. The
     slippery old-world pop in "Don't Go Yet John" reveals the intimate
     consequences of being unable to trust. Even LaVere's covers are so
     seamlessly well-chosen they intersect with her theme. She uses the
     grimy blues in Townes Van Zandt's "Where I Lead Me" and transforms
     it into swaggering Sun Studio-style rockabilly blues. Her reading of
     Ned Miller's "Dark Moon" is a jazzy, honky tonk ballad. LaVere's
     take on John Lennon's "How?" is a relatively faithful version, but
     in her crooning alto it wraps itself naturally inside her narrative
     arc. "Runaway's Diary" is the rarest kind of concept record: one
     that wears the seriousness of its topics like a light jacket, and
     whose inventive musical savvy counters the restlessness of the soul
     at its subject's core.

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