Album Notes

Not content to rest on how well her natural, sultry voice lays in bed with such genres as soft acoustic pop (Scattered Confessions) and echoing chamber-pot (Project Pollen), Dawn DeSimone recorded this blues/psych/rock collaboration with guitarist & songwriter Jay Moran in 2000.

More of an experiment than a recontextualization of her musical direction, Nourishment:Electric rides Moran's big boogie riffs and reverb rich psych-scapes through lyrical terrain that DeSimone fans will find comfortingly familiar.

That isn't to say, of course, that DeSimone hasn't evolved as a songwriter (or, most importantly, a person). But instead of following the "career plan" blueprint that record companies "encourage" for young women in this business (1st album: "I Am Wholesome & Safe" or "I Have Artistic Credibility"; 2nd album: "I Am Sexually Liberated" or "I Am In Control, Dammit!", etc.), her songwriting is allowed to organically become whatever it wishes

"Day Dream" asserts itself as the kind of track Sheryl Crow pays record label people big bucks for, but all-too-often doesn't get. Moran's influence and guitar work dominate this track, and DeSimone's performance suggests what '90s Crowes or '70s Stones might have sounded like with the benefit of the Y chromosome.

The duo can also neatly fold and pack away the swagger on command; the incandescent "Galway" shimmers and invokes both a sea breeze and Galaxie 500 by way of Led Zeppelin.

By Gregory Mitchell

The enhanced CD also includes a video for "The Train Song."