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The Art of Removing Wallpaper
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Terri Hendrix Album Review:
Totally engaging at 2004-10-20
This is my first Terri Hendrix album but it wont be my last. Every song is a winner. Shes totally engaging with a voice that draws you in, first rate music, and lyrics that are deep and personal.
Terri Hendrix Album Review:
Terri Rocks at 2004-10-12
This is a great CD. Every single song is incredible. Terris songwriting skills are only eclipsed by the way she sings these songs. If you have a chance to see her live DO NOT MISS IT. She is even better live.
Terri Hendrix Album Review:
Shes the nicest person in the world. at 2004-11-10
She has a dynamic voice, great songs, and a great personality. She is very witty, and her songs showcase her wit well. If you like a great variety of music, youll likely enjoy this album -- her diverse interests shine through brightly. Its a great cd (as are all of her others). I even like her live cds, which is entirely out-of-character for me. Hope to see you at another PA show!
Terri Hendrix Album Review:
This is the BEST at 2006-06-22
Ive got every Terri Hendix CD, and with each one I think - Wow! This is the best ever! Playful, introspective, thoughtful, funny - with music and lyrics complimenting each other to a T. This is one of my favoite CDs of all time - Cant wait for the next one!
Terri Hendrix Album Review:
Some Very Good Songs on a Misfire Album at 2005-12-18
Like many folk and indie artists in the last few years, Terri Hendrix has been moved by the muse to craft a social/political album. And like many social/political albums in the last few years, this one has some very good songs, and clunks in between.If youve heard tracks like Breakdown and Monopoly, you know that Terri Hendrix has some sharp, incisive views. She has the ability to cut through the chatter and get right to the heart of whats wrong in our world today. But if you listen to the album cuts that havent been released to radio and podcasts, tracks like Its About Time and Judgement Day, the lyrical content becomes leaden and declarative. She feels the need to spell everything out, like she cant quite trust her audience to follow what shes saying and come to their own conclusions. Its as though she lapses into a professorial mentality, lecturing to students who are hunched over their composition books taking notes.Sonically, this album is sterling. Hendrix doesnt abandon the guitar-driven Texas country sound that has characterized most of her music to date. But she does incorporate a little more of a peppy pop aspect that steers her ringing voice into more Mariah and less Loretta Lynn. Reading over what Ive just written, I realize that could sound like an insult, but I dont mean it that way. Rather, Terri uses the mainstream like a buffet, picking and choosing what serves the very individual hybrid sound shes trying to create.Late in the album, she slackens on the political drive, and a sturdier, more organic lyric crive comes through. I admit to not liking Luka Blooms version I Need Love from a few years ago, but Terri Hendrix makes it her own, and it works well. Quiet Me and Long Ride Home were both written by other artists, but Hendrix makes them her own, adding a welcome dose of personal introspection at the end of the disc.Fans of Terri Hendrix will find plenty to like about this CD. So will fans of indie folk and lo-fi country. Even the weaker political songs have good musical resonance, including some violin and cello, and supporting vocals from Ruthie Foster. This album isnt a future classic, and it isnt even going to be remembered as one of Hendrixs better efforts. But it is going to be heard and remembered, and thats what really matters.
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The Ring
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Terri Hendrix Album Review:
The Fact Is at 2002-08-24
I generally ignore others claims about an album never leaving my CD player, because my tastes and moods change too often for that kind of thing. But The Ring is an exception. Ive spun this thing every day since its release in early June, and figure Ill continue to do so for a long while. As a fan of Hendrixs music, I came to this with no small amount of bias, but the leap in maturity and songwriting on this album still impresses me. Hendrixs style has often been summed up (somewhat lazily) as sunny and effervescent, and theres enough here to keep fans of that stuff happy, but its the darker, more introspective songs that really hit home: Spinning Off, Nightwolves, I Found the Lions -- these arent happy-go-lucky folk-pop songs. Even the bouncier tunes -- the scat-happy From Another Planet and catchy Consider Me -- are far more spice than sugar, if you can wipe the smile off your face long enough to pay attention to the lyrics. Add the moving and eloquent title track--a testament to the endurance of love-- along with Hendrixs stubborn, determined mission statement on The Fact Is, and youve got one of the smartest and most enjoyable singer-songwriter albums of the year--or any year, for that matter.
Terri Hendrix Album Review:
great CD at 2002-06-04
I bought this CD a couple of weeks ago @ her show on the riverfront in Fort Smith, Arkansas (just to explain how I got hold of it before the official release date).From what I gather, I think Terri is holding off a bit on the release because Fathers day is so close--the title track is a tribute to her father. This is, in general, a strong album--a more polished product than her earlier albums (which are also excellent), in short, quite highly recommended for anybody who loves the Austin sound. Lloyd Maines provides excellent support, as always.
Terri Hendrix Album Review:
Clear and Beautiful at 2003-10-14
As far as I know, this is the first album to include a song mourning the passing of cartoonist Charles Schultz, and it puts this track right at the front, before the love song | | |
