Jim's Pick For BEST Country Indie Artist CD For 2002!

This is Lolene's debut CD and it is a very good one. Lolene has a great country voice and wrote many of the songs herself. Lolene's motto is "Country Music with an attitude" and you can pick that up in the rock influences you hear in her music. Her voice is very emotive and reminds one of greatness.

This CD was recorded at Bayou Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, and produced by Colonel Buster Doss (who also wrote one of the best songs), who is a legend in this field of "indie" country music, winning numerous awards. George Clinton is the Sound Engineer. Danny Parks provides all of the guitar work and is the sessions' leader. Larry Franklin (fiddler extraordinaire) provides the excellent fiddle work.

The CD overall has a well balanced very good quality sound.7 songs are written by Lolene and the Colonel throws in a dandy and the other 4 are written by a variety of people. Most of the CD has a contemporary country sound with a lot of electric guitar and even some dual guitar breaks and rock sounding drums. Any nuances were left outside the door, this CD rocks. The one song that sort of breaks this mold is "The Man I Love"(Colonel Buster Doss) which is a traditional country shuffle, great song, band is really in a groove and Lolene is at her best sounding a lot like Patsy Cline. This is one of my favorites. A lot of the CD's sound reminds me of early Linda Ronstadt when she had Andrew Gold playing guitar for her and was at the height of her country phase.

My advice is go to Lolene's site and buy it. This is good as anything coming out of Nashville today. I know you are waiting for me to come out with my negative side of the CD. This sounds too positive for me. Well, how about don't lose it. It would have sounded better if it had been mastered, but the sound quality is excellent the way it is.

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