Lady Antebellum - Lady Antebellum
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Artist: Lady AntebellumBrand: Baker
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-15
Music Label: Capitol Nashville
Soundtracks:
- Love Don't Live Here
- Lookin' For A Good Time
- All We'd Ever Need
- Long Gone
- I Run To You
- Love's Lookin' Good On You
- Home Is Where the Heart Is
- Things People Say
- Slow Down Sister
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You
- One Day You Will
Music reviews of Lady Antebellum
Music Review: Despite My Daughter's Thumbs Up I Just Can't Recommend This One
Rating: 2 Stars
Bottom-Line: In the final analysis "Lady Antebellum's" self-title CD is a miss in my musical book.
I am falling in love with the XM Satellite Radio installed my 2008 Cadillac CTS. One of the reason I very seldom listen to commercial radio is well, the commercial part! Far too many advertisements for my taste; I just start enjoying the music and sorry time for a long, long series of commercials! And so the search for music begins.
Not so with XM Satellite Radio. Sure there are occasional announcement, but they have nothing at all to do with pitching stuff I do not need, want, or want to hear about; it's just music and not the same looped play lists now common on the conglomerate commercial broadcast radio stations . It's on XM Satellite Radio that I first heard Need You Know from a fresh new group out of Nashville, "Lady Antebellum." I liked the track so much that I decided to check the group out and reserved both of the C&W trios CD's at the local library; this is a review of their first release, the self-titled "Lady Antebellum."
"Lady Antebellum" is composed of Charles Kelley (lead and background vocals), Dave Haywood (background vocals, guitar, piano, mandolin) and Hillary Scott (lead and background vocals). Pianist Jim Brickman featured the group on his single Never Alone in 2007 and shortly thereafter "Lady Antebellum" signed with Capitol Records Nashville and released Love Don't Live Here (track No.1). The track would go on to peak at #3 on the Hot Country Songs chart in May 2008 and served as the first single from the groups self-titled debut album, which is certified platinum in the U.S.
"Lady Antebellum" the album, also spawned the singles Lookin' for a Good Time (track No. 2) and I Run to You (track No. 5); this track went on to become the group's first Number One hit in July 2009.
Lady Antebellum's accolades include Top New Duo or Group (2009) awarded by the Academy of Country Music, New Artist of the Year in 2008 by the Country Music Association; a 2009 Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by Duo or Group with Vocals for the single I Run to You. The group picked up and anddtional two wards from 45th ACM Awards for Top Vocal Group, Song of the Year (Need You Now), and Single of the Year (Need You Now).
Based on the strength of the single I head on XM I had high hopes for Lady Antebellum's debut album because they tend to be one of the better CD's a group releases. However, I have been largely disappointed in "Lady Antebellum", the album. The lyrics--most co-written by group members--are for the most part been uninspiring, the instrumentation just okay, and the vocal are lackluster and lacking in soulful presence.
The voice(s) of Lady Antebellum Charles Kelly and Hillary Scott do not complement each other very well at all, at least not on this CD. Neither vocalist has a very strong voice, especially Ms. Scott, so the harmonizing doesn't work all the time. Solo, each voice is fine if not drowned out by over-active instrumentation like on track No.2 Lookin' For A Good Time, but over-all I am decidedly underwhelmed. I found nothing particularly laudable on either of the "hit" singles from the album and that does not bode well for the rest of the CD.
But the forgoing does not mean I hated the whole CD; Ms. Scott did an excellent {solo} job on track No.10, Can't Take My Eye Off You. Indeed the track is my favorite track on "Lady Antebellum"; the track is vintage C&W, quiet, understated, soulful and emotive. Mr. Kelly's voice is just a whisper and we are allowed to bask in the understated, but ultimately pretty voice of Hillary Scott. And lyrically the song was grown-up and not the least bit cheesy.
"Lady Antebellum", the album, is a mixture of fast (mostly misses) and slow tracks but it's on the slower more soulful track that "Lady Antebellum" sounds its best. "Lady Antebellum" is yet another example of the Nashville hit machine, some albums are hits, some are misses (like this one), but all represent fresh new voices from the heartland of America and that's a good thing. But in the final analysis "Lady Antebellum's" self-title CD is a miss in my musical book. I find it hard to recommend an album wherein I only enjoyed (1) track out of (11), so I will not be recommending this one. There is much more to recommend on the group's second CD, Need You Know (review to follow).
Description of Lady Antebellum
There has been a buzz in Music City since mid-2006 when Lady Antebellum performed together for the very first time. The trio- comprised of Hillary Scott (vocals), Charles Kelley (vocals), and Dave Haywood (vocals, acoustic guitar, keys)- says their name, "Lady Antebellum," represents a sense of nostalgia found in the songs they sing. "It felt like magic," says Hillary, remembering their first performance together, "We all felt more comfortable onstage together than we ever had alone."A year and a half later, the buzz on Lady Antebellum is as strong as it's ever been, and the rest of the nation will soon discover why. Hillary, Charles, and Dave, three young songwriter-musicians with varied influences and backgrounds, create a sound that is fresh and unique, yet still sounds like something you've known for a long time. The debut single, "Love Don't Live Here," is only the beginning for Lady Antebellum. The "Lady A" buzz is coming...April 15!
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