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Angie Heaton - Let It Ride
Let
It Ride is the third album from Illinois singer-songwriter
Angie Heaton, a former member of Corndolly,
Liquorette,
and Tractor
Kings. She has two previous solo releases, Calamities
And Restitution from 1996 and Sparkle
from 1998. Angie's music is a kaleidoscope of influences, her
albums lovingly assembled scrapbooks filled with torn pages
from yearbooks and journals, concert tickets worn down from
the washing machine, dog-eared photos of backyard parties and
summer vacations. Every song Angie writes is a love letter that
never got mailed, a list of hopeful New Year's resolutions,
diary-personal, fragile, beautiful, and real. Angie’s
songs are about crushes and death… and being crushed to
death, while her phrasing falls comfortably behind the beat
like Willie Nelson, with a voice recalling Lucinda
Williams and Neko
Case . Let It Ride was recorded over the span of
three years and features guest appearances from Ric
Menck (Velvet
Crush, Matthew Sweet, The Tyde), Parasol labelmate Neilson
Hubbard, and cowgirl pals from both Coasts: NYC rocker-girl
L.P.
and Los Angeles indie-songstress Gina
Villalobos. 11 songs including a cover of the Cheap
Trick classic “Downed.”
One great gal, four great chords... let it ride!
other
Angie Heaton releases
Past praise for Angie's work:
"Angie Heaton makes…a nice eclectic
album that goes through almost as many styles as Guided By Voices
does
beers during a typical concert. Playing stylistic roulette
is actually a very shrewd move on Heaton’s part; it not
only allows her to show off the depth of her chops, but it
helps reduce the chances of her being pigeonholed as the next
Phair/Harvey/Amos by rock critics. Anyone who can write pop
songs, rave-up ballads, and dirges as well as Heaton doesn’t
deserve to get stuck being called the next anybody." - Magnet
"Angie Heaton showcases her own charming
skills as a cowgirl diva" - New York Press
"Her sharp sense of humor, melodic
deftness, and cow-punk verve are hot enough to pop her out of
the corn belt" - Entertainment Weekly |
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