Colleen Rennison has one of those voices that is unique and unforgettable. It reminds me of Janis Joplin, but without the rock and roll edge. Deep down it has a soulful quality and while it may not have the range of some artists, it fits her choice of material well. <\/p>\n
Rennison\u2019s new album, See The Sky About To Rain,<\/i> presents her as an American roots singer with some excursions in a country direction. She is not a songwriter, but she chose the albums 12 songs wisely.<\/p>\n
She is at her best on two Robbie Robertson tunes, \u201cAll La Glory\u201d and \u201cStage Fright,\u201d plus Tom Ghent\u2019s \u201cWhiskey Whiskey.\u201d All three are made for her Americana style and have the common denominator of a brass section, which pushes the song along without interfering with the vocals. They are laidback songs that flow rather than overwhelm. <\/p>\n
There are a number of story songs that feature a straightforward vocal performance. \u201cWhy Don\u2019t You Try\u201d (Leonard Cohen), \u201cCoyote\u201d (Joni Mitchell), and especially \u201cFancy\u201d (Bobbie Gentry) all benefit from her keeping the focus on the lyrics as she challenges herself vocally.<\/p>\n
Several of the tracks move in a country direction. Townes Van Zandt\u2019s \u201cWhite Frightliner,\u201d Sarah Harmer\u2019s \u201cOleander\u201d and Booker T Jones \u201cMy Crew\u201d all benefit from fiddles, mandolins, dobro, pedal steel guitars, and backing vocals by the McCrary Sisters. They help to give the music variety as they complement one another and meld everything into a cohesive whole.<\/p>\n
The album ends with the title song, composed by Neil Young. Propelled by the guitar of producer Steve Dawson, the track just washes over you and brings the album to a fitting conclusion. <\/p>\n
See The Sky About To Rain <\/i>is an intimate album of interpretive thoughts by Canadian artist Colleen Rennison.\u00a0 The subtle textures and the power of her emotion make it one of the better Americana releases of the year so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":32056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[9454],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-43793","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-colleen-rennison","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43793","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43793"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43793"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}