I was given the Catie Curtis album
\nDreaming In Romance Languages<\/i> because I like “chicks with
\nacoustic guitar” music. Catie Curtis is definitely a chick with an
\nacoustic guitar.<\/p>\n
The jacket material, which often lists song lyrics and other
\nartists featured on the album, listed only the sales testimonial
\nthat stated that Catie Curtis was a “folk goddess” and that her
\nmusic was used on
\nDawson’s Creek<\/i> and other TV shows. It was almost as if I was
\nbeing dared to not like the music on this album. I found the Catie
\nCurtis Web site to find out more about the artist since the jacket
\nmaterial was so sparse. As it happens, this is Curtis’ ninth
\nreleased album. She is, in fact, called a “folk goddess” by her
\nfans. I will not be joining her fans. I also hereby accept the dare
\nto not like this album.<\/p>\n
The folk music that I know and love normally has great, deep,
\nmeaningful lyrics. The lyrics tell a story that evoke an emotional
\nreaction and makes me think. If lyrics are poetry, I guess Catie
\nCurtis has been reading Faulkner, because I can’t understand the
\nstory, the poem, or anything more that random sentence fragments
\nshoved together in an even more random sequence. From “Deliver Me”
\ncomes this bit of mush:<\/p>\n
“But I got a wishbone and I don’t need your \/ Condescending
\nsympathy \/ All the angels that I know are fallen and broken \/
\nSoaking in the muddy river”<\/p>\n
HUH? What does a wishbone have to do with receiving sympathy?
\nReaders may have to take this on faith, but I truly couldn’t find
\nlinks to subjects in other parts of the song, either.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, though, lyrics are not as important if the overall
\nsong has a good melodic sound, sort of like certain lullabies.
\nCatie Curtis does have a generally good musical sense. The guitar
\nand background accompaniment (whoever they are) sound reasonably
\nokay. When Curtis isn’t trying to do anything weird, she has a
\nreasonably good, if somewhat deep voice. Unfortunately, she doesn’t
\nstick with what she’s good at. She keeps trying to break to
\nfalsetto, and it sound like she’s got something stuck in her
\nthroat. Her tones wander when she’s outside her comfort zone. “Life
\nGoes On” is an excellent example of why Catie should stick to the
\nlower notes, and not try to shift high every other bar.<\/p>\n
There, I took the dare. There are probably hundreds of Catie
\nCurtis fans who have seen her live that now want to kill me. I
\napologize if I have offended you. Hopefully her other eight albums
\nwarrant fandom much more than this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":26666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7001],"rating":[5616],"class_list":["post-37918","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-catie-curtis","rating-rating-d"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37918","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37918"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}