Country radio has a long history of having disposable stars;
\nthat is, they get two or three good CDs out of an artist then toss
\nthem for the next cleft chin with a cowboy hat or cute cleavage.
\nDespite most music pundits’ opinion, this isn’t a new trend; a
\ngreat deal of talented folks who owned chunks of the country
\nairwaves in the late eighties and early nineties have gone the way
\nof the dodo (anyone remember Lionel Cartwright?) Combine this with
\ncountry radio’s utter refusal to play older artists, and you have a
\nblasted wasteland that makes top 40 radio look intelligent.<\/p>\n
Enter one Suzy Bogguss, who charted a total of eleven top forty
\ncountry singles between 1989 and 1994 — but because she took a
\ncouple of years off to have a kid and a life, has only threatened
\nthe charts once since then (and that was a number thirty-three
\nsingle in 1998). This, O Ye DV Faithful, is what is known as a damn
\nshame; Bogguss has an elegant, smoky, easy voice that goes down
\nlike twelve-year-old single malt. Her latest effort,
\nSwing<\/i>, is a lovely, rollicking, and toe-tapping piece of
\ncountry swing — and since no one will bother to play anything off
\nit unless hell freezes over, you should check it out.<\/p>\n
\nSwing<\/i> is in many ways a collaboration between Bogguss and
\nthe lead guitarist of swing stars Asleep At The Wheel, Ray Benson.
\nBenson and Asleep At The Wheel provide a sonic background for
\nBogguss’ heated-honey vocals. Add in five songs from Nashville
\nsongwriter April Barrows, and you have a CD of sheer swing talent.
\nI’m sitting here right now, tapping my toes as I listen to it; it’s
\ninfectious music, impossible to ignore. If I didn’t dance like such
\na white boy, I might even be dancin’.<\/p>\n
Bogguss also takes on a few classics: “Comes Love” (originally a
\nBillie Holliday number), Duke Ellington’s “Do Nothing ‘Till You
\nHear From Me,” and Nat King Cole’s “Straighten Up And Fly Right.”
\nShe handles them all with elegance and aplomb, especially “Comes
\nLove” — it’s a brilliant take on a classic. Bogguss also writes
\nher own music, penning one of the best things on the CD, the
\nshimmying “It’s Always New To Me” (with a great throbbing bass part
\nfrom Spencer Starnes).<\/p>\n
All in all,
\nSwing<\/i> is a wonderful CD. In a perfect world, it would be
\ngetting airplay in every market on every country station; as it is,
\nthose of us in the know can smile wisely and enjoy Bogguss’ talent
\nourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":26480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6916],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-37716","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-suzy-bogguss","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37716"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}