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DiscountDelight - Trouble
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List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $7.96
Your Save: $ 6.02 ( 43% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: RCA
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0828766345926
Label: RCA
Manufacturer: RCA
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: RCA
Release Date: 2004-09-14
Studio: RCA
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Summary: Ray Lamontagne: like pure maple syrup for your soul
Comment: The first song I heard from Ray Lamontagne's debut CD, "Trouble", found that certain place in my soul where few have traveled. Once inside, it met up with the feelings I have when I listen to anything by James Taylor, vintage Jackson Browne and Van Morrison, among others. It's a calm that will soothe you with a comforting familiarity. A few of these songs were featured on the F/X program, "Rescue Me", starring Denis Leary, and perfectly portray the struggle inside the main character.
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Summary: Don't normally do this !
Comment: Fell asleep watching Rescue Me last tuesday and woke
up to catch the last 5 minutes of the show .
This song was playing, All The Wild Horses!
Went out the next day and bought the record.
Shelter! Amazing.
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Summary: One-hit wonder?
Comment: What are yawl listenin to? O yes, I love "Trouble" and I sort of like a few of the other songs here. But a fabulous voice? A great find? Otis Redding? O come on! Ray's voice is not in that class and he himself would be the first to admit it. I think he's a better songwriter than performer and others would do better covers than he can. I found a lot of the material here boring, overly sensitive, whiney, and forgettable. In fact, I've forgotten almost all of it. I think Ray might turn out to be a one-hit wonder.
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Summary: cherry pickin" from the right tree
Comment: I first heard this CD playing at a bookstore/ multi media store which will go unnamed. I stopped in my book buying tracks,convinced I was hearing Terry Reid singing an obscure Van Morrison out take from Astral Weeks with David Lindley playing fiddle . For maybe the second time in my life I actually asked a counter person to find out who the singer was playing over the store's sound system. That's how I came to buy this CD. Now...It's damning with faint praise to say I love this record because it sounds like (A) Terry Reid {circa 1972} (B) Van Morrison {circa 1970} (C) The Band with Richard Manuel (circa anytime). I don't care if Ray's not "exactly original". This is great stuff ,and it's "exactly" the kind of soulful folk/soul ,that the artists I've namechecked above did so well themselves. Very few current recording artists can pull off this kind of music with the style and ease Ray La Montagne so effortlessly does here. One suggestion for his next effort might be to ,maybe just for fun, rock out a bit,since this cat"s got the pipes to do anything. Hihgly reccommended. Derivative? Sure! But he's pickin' cherries from a fine old tree.
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Summary: Amazing Artist
Comment: Ray Lamontagne is an amazing artist. This album is wonderful. I really like every single song. The best way I can describe the genre is southern soul. It has an old classic feel to it. I highly recommend this to everyone. Also, the price on it is great. I bought it here on amazon for $8.97. It's a great buy.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Some singer/songwriters (think Paul Westerberg and Elliott Smith) develop their world-weariness through the unforgiving trials of passing years and the heart-breaking grind of the music business. Others (Van Morrison, Neil Young) seem to have sprung from out of nowhere with the fully formed soul of a life well-lived. Ray LaMontagne belongs with the latter. On this, his debut, LaMontagne has crafted a handful of quietly devastating meditations on life and love--and delivered them with a raspy vocal all his own. The simple, mournful lyrics of "Burn," "Shelter" and the title track recall a Hank Williams ballad, and the reserved production by alt-country/americana genius Ethan Johns (the Jayhawks, Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon) make this a great disc for smoky Saturday nights, and rainy Sunday mornings. --Ben Heege
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