Folk album review: Carrie Rodriguez

Published on Friday 3 July 2009 16:24

CARRIE RODRIGUEZ She Aint Me **** Continental Song City CSCCD1050, £12.72

Brought up in Austin, hanging out with family friend Lyle Lovett and playing the fiddle for years with Chip Taylor, young Rodriguez is a very mutable musician. Now a powerful songwriter, she's moved from the rural back porch to the cool urban apartment in these odes to refracted love. Co-writers and collaborators here include Mary Gauthier and Lucinda Williams, while producer Malcolm Burn focuses a contemporary soundscape that in the main avoids the pop/rock cliches. An album that repays repeated listening.

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