2005-03-27
Vance's seventh recording delivers more of his high-timbre folk songs, occasionally touched either a country-twang or a jazz-inflected foundation. Sometimes his vocal delivery has been described as part Roy Orbison, part Nat King Cole -- and that's pretty accurate. Check out his Roy-like rendition of "Ten Thousand Skies" or his Nat-like vocal on "Unforgivable." Other interesting cuts are the atypical reaction to a military death notice in "That Front Porch Song" and the off-beat holding-the-world-hostage song "I've Got a Plane" (complete with scat-singing finale).Cowboy Junkies
At the End of Paths Taken
RYAN ADAMS
Easy Tiger
Rachel Harrington
City of Refuge
KRISTY HANSON
Into the Quiet
BLACK JAKE AND THE CARNIES
Where The Heather Don't Grow
Gail Ann Dorsey
I Used to Be
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