Artist: Natalie Maines
Album: Mother
Bitrate: 242kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Columbia
Genre: Country
Size: 82.73 megs
PlayTime: 0h 46min 02sec total
Rip Date: 2013-05-04
Store Date: 2013-05-07
Track List:
--------
01. Without You 3:51
02. Mother 5:52
03. Free Life 5:02
04. Silver Bell 3:00
05. Lover, You Shouldn't Come Over 7:01
06. Vein In Vain 4:44
07. Trained 2:40
08. Come Cryin' To Me 4:33
09. I'd Run Away 3:31
10. Take It On Faith 5:48
Release Notes:
--------
MOTHER is the solo debut from Natalie Maines, the always provocative,
multi-platinum, Grammy-Award winning singer of the Dixie Chicks. On MOTHER,
people will hear a new direction from the singer. Heavily influenced by the more
rock-based, edgy and intense sound of title track, and Pink Floyd cover,
ôMother,ö Maines teamed up with friend and Grammy-winning singer, songwriter,
and guitar wizard Ben Harper, who co-produced the record with Maines. The album
was recorded in HarperÆs studio.
"I wanted this music to be very different from the Dixie Chicks," she says.
"Lots of albums by lead singers might just as well have been made by the band,
but I think this is very different from anything the Chicks could make. That
separation and distinction was important."
One of the initial songs they tackled was the soaring, tortured ballad from Pink
Floyd's The Wall that ultimately gave this album its title. The result is a
cover, which NPR's Ann Powers has described as "a tender acknowledgment of how
fear can entrap all of us, even when we want to do nothing but love."
ôFree Lifeö was written by Dixie Chicks collaborator and Grammy-Award winner,
Dan Wilson. As different as this new music is from her Dixie Chicks roots, the
songwriting credits on "Come Cryin' to Me" reveal that even her fellow Dixie
Chicks Martie Maguire and Emily Robison still kept a hand in the new project.
"That was a song we decided was too rock for Taking the Long Way," Maines
explains, "but it really felt right to have a piece of them on here."
All of the albumÆs 10 songs were selected because of personal connections to
Natalie. Jeff Buckley's "Lover You Should Have Come Over" was a reminder for
Maines of the early days in relationship with her husband, actor Adrian Pasdar.
She discovered "Without You" on her friend Eddie Vedder's ukulele album, and
heard a groove that she thought might fit.
What started out as a fun session with friend Ben Harper, quickly developed into
the solo debut from one of our generations most coveted voices.