Thursday, October 22, 2009

Miranda Lee Richards

Though I tried to create a fragment of buzz over Cyndi Harvell earlier this year, another artist whose music I was downloading at around the same time ended up a bigger favorite.

Miranda Lee Richards, whose sound reminds me of a demolition derby featuring Over the Rhine, Mazzy Star and the Innocence Mission, produced a very strong collection of tunes on her second disk.



A few tunes, including "Early November," have instrumentation reminiscent of "Legend"-era Poco. Pedal steel not unlike what Rusty Young might have done. Guitar solos that might have come from Paul Cotton. But it isn't them.

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