2014-04-28
Singer/Songwriter Radney Foster is hard to classify. First impression: country singer. He's got the accent, but not quite a twang, he's from Texas, and he's had country hits. Click on his website, and the title bar says "Americana Artist". Some of the cuts on Everything I Should Have Said will stand by themselves as folk. He takes things slow, and contemplative and mostly quiet. He mostly sings wistful love songs while strumming his guitar.
One exception is "Not In My House", an uptempo electrified cry for tolerance and a declaration that he won't use the f-word (and in fact, the word is not used in the song, you have to pay close attention to puzzle it out).
--Gerald Etkind
JONATHON EDWARDS
My Love Will Keep
BOB DYLAN
The Best of the Original Mono Recordings
WILLY PORTER
Available Light
NOBODYS DARLIN
Kitchen Girls
Fairport Convention
Over the Next Hill
Jim Lauderdale
Headed for the Hills
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