Shannon McNally - Small Town Talk - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2021 . Recorded with an all-star band and featuring special guests like Jessi Colter, Buddy Miller, Rodney Crowell, and Lukas Nelson, Shannon McNally's extraordinary collection, The Waylon Sessions, isn't so much a tribute to Waylon Jennings as it is a recontextualization a nuanced, feminine rendering of a catalog long considered a bastion of hetero-masculinity. That's not to say McNally has a softer, gentler take on the songs of Jennings and his outlaw compatriots here; in fact, just the opposite. Over and over again, she manages to locate a smoldering intensity - a searing hurt buried deep within the music's deceptively simple poetry - and she hones in on it with a surgical precision. McNally doesn't swap pronouns or couch her delivery with a wink; she simply plays it straight, singing her truth as a divorced single mother in her 40's in all it's beauty, pain, and power. The result is that rare covers record that furthers our understanding of the originals, an album of classics that challenges our perceptions and assumptions about just what made them classics in the first place.

Drawing on the defiant spirits of outlaws and visionaries, Shannon McNally takes her listeners on a timeless and haunting journey through her self-coined North American Ghost Music. Armed with a spine tingling voice, easy inner beauty, and songs that linger, McNally's soul-wrenching vocals and uncanny songwriting sensibilities have cast a spell on audiences around the country. For the first time, McNally offers US the chance to savor her live performances on NORTH AMERICAN GHOST MUSIC, featuring an eclectic mix of fan- favorite originals such as Geronimo alongside wistful takes on My Heroes' Have Always Been Cowboys and the Last Lonely Eagle.

Bertoni,Ferdinando / Zarpellon,Roberto - Bertoni Orfeo [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/25/2016