Crystal Bowersox - Farmer's Daughter
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Artist: Crystal BowersoxBrand: Fox
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-12-14
Model: 886977480928
Music Label: Jive
Soundtracks:
- Ridin With The Radio
- For What It s Worth
- Farmer s Daughter
- Holy Toledo
- Lonely
- Hold On
- On The Run
- Kiss Ya
- Speak Now
- Mine All Mine
- Mason
- Arlene
Music reviews of Farmer's Daughter
Music Review: The best new alt-country girl coming from Idol???
Rating: 5 Stars
Actually yes!!! Crystal's "Farmer's Daughter" left me speechless. I knew she was alt-country from the get-go and she reminded me a LOT of Tift Merritt, as well as Shelby Lynne, her sister Allison Moorer, a drop Patty Griffin, a tad Bonnie Raitt, and more than a little Janis Joplin, people who combine alt-country, powerpop and southern soul, with a dollop of gospel and blues. I heard some of her demo clips online, of her self-penned memoir tunes "Farmer's Daughter" and "Holy Toledo" while she was on the show, and I was like, man, this girl is the real deal...perfect for alt-country gigs and Lilith Fair, but she was on the Idol's Live tour instead, and I was hoping her momentum would not be lost and I hoped she would reach her true audience, and Idol/Live was not it...so I was concerned for her career. I also heard horror stories of how good Idol contestant winners' records were ruined by the powers-that-be, that Crystal would be COMMERCIALIZED, god forbid.
What I was worried about was if she was truly able to have creative control, as she is a talented/gifted songwriter with a great HONEST alt-country vision, and commercialization would have ruined her record and her career. I saw that "Farmer's Daughter" was mostly sole Crystal-penned tunes (8 of them, 9 if you count the iTunes bonus track, which I haven't heard yet), 2 co-writes (1 with David Ryan Harris who is really good, I heard some of his stuff in the past, and 1 with her husband...turns out it was his song, "Mason", he wrote it for Crystal, but she added stuff to the bridge, making it a co-write), and 2 covers (1 was Steven Stills'/Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" and the other was a contribution, "Hold On", by Idol's Kara DioGuardi and, gulp, Chad Kroeger from Nickelback...I HATE Nickelback with a passion, so I was worried about that song, fearing that it was a sellout song, forced upon her as 19 said "OK, we'll LET you do all your songs, but you have to do this one as a compromise").
Well, I popped on "Farmer's Daughter" and I was happily relieved. Every Crystal song is great, the BS cover was actually fine, fun and decent, and the Kara/Chad cover was actually a lovely, moving song that Crystal put her life experience and wrapped her voice & style around...it actually doesn't sound like hackwork!! Crystal can plop herself proudly beside the best current, NONcommercial and unique alt-country singer/songwriters such as, like I said, Tift Merritt, Shelby & Allison, Patty, Ryan Adams, Band Of Horses, Brandi Carlile, Hayes Carll, Carlene Carter, Rosanne Cash, Shaun Colvin, Natalie Merchant, Cowboy Junkies, Hope Sandoval, Delaney & Bonnie...I can go on and on. There was also this Canadian girl named Luba from the 80s/90s who, after a bus crash claimed her band, except for producer Daniel Lanois...who was in her band back in the day...changed her sound on a comeback record and it sounded like Crystal's "Farmer's Daughter".
I was also a tad unnerved when I saw there were 2 versions of the album...censured and uncensured, and my local BestBuy only had the regular version...I forgot about this...and I was like, uh-oh. I heard 1 cuss word, which was fine by me, saw the crossed-out words which I thought was actually funny...but on "Ridin' With The Radio", I saw the words actually were "I Ain't Writin' For The Radio" (I was like YEAH, love her attitude, her view of radio sucking and good music being lost!!! I was happy she was NOT going to be made to be bad commercial radio music!!), but hearing the record, those words were changed to "We're Ridin' With The Radio", which are OK words, but I was curious if the ORIGINAL anti-radio lyric is on the uncensured version??? I would buy that download version off of iTunes for the bonus track and unedited words as well.
Otherwise, and as it is, everything is fine, this album is terrific, possibly even a masterpiece...ironic that she never got to release a record before Idol, as deals fell apart one by one...I'm just happy she never gave up. I'm happy Crystal was able to be honest and unvarnished...I can imagine the fights at the record company!!! Stubbornness is key with art...her songs were worth fighting for, and I loved how she called the show's rules out saying she does originals and the show only allowed covers!!! I was like, go Crystal!!! The album is not overproduced, it's not slick, it's rough & tumble twangy and honest and soulful. It rocks in places and tears your heart out in others. I'm just happy that Crystal was able to endear herself to the hearts of millions...I just hope those people buy her record. She's brave, this record is brave and I'm happy that the record company was able to see past sales-driven shallowness and see that that type of treatment would only hurt Crystal and her career, as she's based on stubborn honesty and she's a gifted songwriter. I played the album twice through in a row, and my jaw hit the floor on the album both times...even her husband, Brian is great...their duet "Mason" is a great song and they sound sweet together, like true soulmates. I love it all.
Hands down, best debut album of 2010. This proves she should have won Idol, the suits may have won the battle...fixing the results that Lee won the show...but with this album, "Farmer's Daughter", Crystal threw down the gauntlet and she won the war.
Description of Farmer's Daughter
The 2010 American Idol runner-up s set includes her original song, Holy Toledo, a song she performed on the show as well as the arresting title track which chronicles her personal experience of dealing with child abuse. Fans and Idol viewers know Crystal is a talented singer, but Farmer s Daughter further establishes her as a truly gifted songwriter. Farmer's Daughter was produced by David Bendeth (Paramore, Breaking Benjamin, Papa Roach).After finishing up the 2010 American Idol Live Tour, Bowersox headed to New Jersey to begin production on her eagerly awaited debut. The twelve tracks, ten of them written or co-written by Bowersox, showcase her strong songwriting skills and her desire to infuse her lyrics with that raw emotion of someone who has lived. The album also contains eight songs written solely by Crystal, two co-writes, an additional track by Kara DioGuardi and Nickelback s Chad Kroeger titled Hold On and a cover of Buffalo Springfield s 1967 classic For What It s Worth. One very special song is Mason, a song Bowersox co-wrote with her husband Brian Walker, which they performed together at their recent nuptials.
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