Yeeeeee haaaaaawwwww! B Side Country day is back - with another recommendation from the infamous JenInTosa. Jen is our resident country music expert - since I'm fairly clueless. Trick Pony is yet another band that I'd never in my life heard of before it hit the old Suggestion Box. Turns out they've been a band since 1996 with this being their debut album that dropped in 2001. I guess it's not super crazy, since in 2001 I was finishing high school and certainly not listening to country. This album has a bit of a different style to it. It has a very rock element intertwined with the country vocal and lyric. Sure, most tracks are still a very formal country, with the slow beat, very rangy female vocal and even acoustic guitar. Strangely though, there are a couple that buck that trend. One track even seems to have a steel drum and a slight reggae feel to it. Couple tracks are super upbeat and could easily pass as a Melissa Etheridge poppy track. I hear the lead singer left the band to start a solo career in 2006 and they haven't worked together again since. They do have a 'best of' due out sometime this year. I'll say this, with the expansion of all the different styles, there is probably something for everyone. The biggest single off the track, has a honky tonk type style that could also span genres. I don't feel as though this album is super amazing or anything, but it certainly is not bad. I think every band should cover Johnny Cash, so that's going to put this up a quarter of a point for me. Check it out...country fans I think will really enjoy it - pop fans will enjoy it and the passive listener might find a couple tracks they enjoy.
TRACK LISTING:
1. Pour Me
2. Party of One
3. Big River
4. Every Other Memory
5. More Like Me
6. Just What I Do
7. Stay in the Moment
8. On a Night Like This
9. One in a Row
10. Now Would Be the Time
11. Can't Say That on the Radio
12. Spent
13. Not Hidden Track
Listen To Samples
Top 3 Tracks
1. Pour Me
2. Just What I do
3. Big River
FINAL RATING:
2.5 out of 5 stars
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