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Artist | Kelly Willis
Title | Kelly Willis
Genre | Country Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 34:10
Label | MCA Records Store | 1993
Catalog | MCAD-10789 Rip | 2017
Bitrate | 248 kbps Size | 63.76 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Take It All Out On You 2:32
02. Heaven's Just A Sin Away 2:30
03. One More Night 3:17
04. That'll Be Me (Duet with Kevin Welch) 4:23
05. Whatever Way The Wind Blows 3:23
06. Get Real 2:55
07. I Know Better Now 3:47
08. Up All Night 4:06
09. World Without You 3:16
10. Shadows Of Love 4:01
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Although the work of new traditionalist singer/songwriter Kelly Willis
earned widespread critical acclaim, she found little in the way of
comparable commercial success; her sound, a smart hybrid of country and
rock, simply assimilated both musical styles too well to gain acceptance in
either camp. Born in Oklahoma and raised in the Washington, DC, area, she
began performing in her boyfriend (and future husband) Mas Palermo's band
at the age of 16. Her powerhouse vocals were so popular with club audiences
that soon the group was renamed Kelly & The Fireballs in her honor. After
Willis graduated high school, the band moved to Austin, Texas, only to
break up six months later.
You just have to feel bad for Willis. Gorgeous and rambunctious, with a
voice featuring both traits in equal measure, Willis spent the early 90s
issuing well-appointed country-rock collections that went curiously,
damnably unnoticed. 1993's eponymous effort was no different. Produced by
Don Was, the album accessed the same smart sound that made Dwight Yoakam a
star, but all it did for Willis was get her dropped from MCA. Fortunately,
by decade's end, persistence, patience, and a streak of good old stubborn
pride had helped land her a new deal with Ryko, and a good bit of the
attention she'd always deserved.
Willis presaged all of this with one of the slower burning tracks on the
1993 release. 'There's so much to take for granted when life is going
well', she sings on "I Know Better Now". 'When the tides will turn no one
can tell'. The song's touches of mandolin and warm Hammond organ are
typical of the album's sound, which is just as comfortable with the raggedy
guitar and hoochie coo of "Take It All Out On You" as it is with the
wistful, mature pop of "Get Real" (a song that helped write the sonic
blueprint for the later crossover success of Faith Hill). Willis' vocal
style is like granules of sand in a clear mountain stream, or a torn
T-shirt in the back row of church - as pretty as it can be, her voice never
quite loses the signature of her youthful turn as a barroom belter.
In retrospect, it's nearly impossible to see how Kelly Willis wasn't a
success. But she seemed to take it all in stride. Her sighing duet with
Kevin Welch on his "That'll Be Me" applies well to the two singers' country
outsider status. 'You and I were gypsies born under the same sign', Welch
croons over a dusty pedal steel guitar. But by the time Willis joins him on
the title line, you've stopped feeling bad for Willis' run of fool's gold
and started seeing a diamond in the rough.
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