Cheryl Wheeler - Driving Home
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Artist: Cheryl WheelerBrand: WHEELER,CHERYL
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-10-04
Music Label: Philo / UMGD
Soundtracks:
- Driving Home
- Silver Lining
- Music In My Room
- Frequently Wrong But Never In Doubt
- Don't Forget The Guns
- Act Of Nature
- 75 Septembers
- Spring
- Bad Connection
- When Fall Comes To New England
- Orbiting Jupiter
- Almost
Music reviews of Driving Home
Music Review: A True Comic And Poet
Rating: 5 Stars
DRIVING HOME - Cheryl Wheeler
This album first introduced me to the music of Cheryl Wheeler way back in 1994. It didn't take much prompting to search it out after hearing "Don't Forget The Guns" on a local radio station. After playing it, the host declared, "what a sweet little song ..." which appropriately reflected the sardonic humour it conveyed. How can "we don't look for trouble, but by golly, if we're in it/it's nice to know we're free to blow nine hundred rounds a minute" not do that. This is the comic side of Cheryl Wheeler. The poet is something else again, and "Driving Home" reflects that side in a quite breathless fashion.
"75 Septembers" resonates with me, because my late father was born in September. I well remember his 75th, because I couldn't be there for it, as I was travelling in Turkey at the time. The lines that really speak to me are "now the fields are all four lanes and the moon's not just a name/are you more amazed at how things change or how they stay the same/and do you sit here on this porch and wonder how the time flies by/or does it seem to barely creep along/with 75 Septembers come and gone." There's nothing much else I want to say after that.
There's hardly a song I wouldn't recommend on this album. Right now I feel somewhat lost to find the words that would adequately describe the emotional pull and insight of these songs. I'll just single out in particular "Act of Nature", "Bad Connection", "Frequently Wrong But Never In Doubt", "Almost", and, of course, "75 Septembers."
There are light and airy, good feeling moments on this album too. "Silver Lining", "When Fall Comes To New England", "Music In My Room" and "Spring", both musically and lyrically, flow effortlessly and leave me with a sense of real affection for Cheryl's songwriting ability.
Cheryl's collaboration with Janis Ian on "Orbiting Jupiter" is literally in a galaxy of its own. I have recently rediscovered Janis Ian too through a not totally convincing local cover of "At Seventeen." There's another incredible, durable talent. Janis, that is, not the local.
"Driving Home" is one of my favourite albums of all time. It's right up there in the top 3 along with Mary Chapin Carpenter's "Stones In The Road" and "Between Here And Gone". I am rather torn across all three and I keep changing my mind on which one might be the best. I like to think I can just appreciate them all because they all offer something different. Perhaps it is no co-incidence that Mary Chapin sings background vocal on "75 Septembers".
Do yourself a favour. Listen to this album. Take the advice of respected music critic Robert Oermann, who, in the album's liner notes suggests that by the time you've finished listening to these songs, Cheryl will be as deep in your heart as someone you smile at every day.
Description of Driving Home
No Description Available.Genre: Folk Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 27-APR-1994
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