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Artist...: Sister Hazel
Album....: Fortress
Genre....: Alternative
Label....: Universal Records
Lang.....: English
Year.....: 2000
Source...: CDDA
Rip.date.: 07-29-2017
St.date..: 06-27-2000
Encoder..: FLAC 1.3.1
Quality..: 996 kbps Avg 44.1kHz 2 channels
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01 Change Your Mind 4:20
02 Back Porch 0:37
03 Thank You 3:21
04 Champagne High 5:21
05 Beautiful Thing 3:48
06 Surreal 4:41
07 Shame On Me 3:48
08 Your Winter 4:36
09 Strange Cup Of Tea 5:00
10 Save Me 4:02
11 Give In 3:58
12 Out There 4:24
13 Elvis 3:58
14 Fortress 5:54
Total Size.: 14 Files/437.8MB/57:48 min
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Sister Hazel was fortunate that their debut album arrived
precisely at the right time, just when radio was cooling to
Hootie & the Blowfish but still needed journeymen bar bands that
turned out sturdy mainstream rock & roll, the kind of music that
was the '90s version of heartland rock. They scored a major hit
and toured the hell out of the record, building a respectable
success. Still, when their second album, Fortress, appeared in
the summer of 2000, they still had something to prove. Like a
lot of their peers -- such post-ironic, post-Hootie artists as
Matchbox Twenty, Tonic, Cowboy Mouth, and Edwin McCain -- they
had to prove that they could deliver another solid record that
would retain their audience. The dilemma of the working band, as
it were. This is a dilemma that was particularly difficult in
the late '90s/early 2000s since working bands were considerably
less than hip and didn't have album rock as an outlet the way
working bands did in the '70s. Sister Hazel realizes this and
they even give a shout-out to their working-band comrades in
their special thanks. It's likely that they connect so strongly
with the working band because they are the definition of one for
their era. They are a solid band, turning out sturdy albums that
may have a couple of stumbles, yet it's always satisfyingly
straightforward. With Fortress, Sister Hazel does take a couple
of tentative steps to distinguish themselves from the pack -- a
neo-psychedelic arrangement there, Beatlesque horns here,
ambitious song structures every few tracks -- but they remain a
working band at their core. That means that they're hardly cool
in 2000, but they do deliver a follow-up that delivers on the
sound of their hit, even if it never quite successfully expands
that signature sound. And that's a trademark of a working band,
too.
Url: http://sisterhazel.com/
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