I want a radio station that sounds like The Hummingbirds!
author: Bruce Kula (of the Blue Island Beer Club)
If there's any justice in the world, this CD will be the wellspring for success, fame, and riches. Of course there is no justice in the world, and certainly none in the music business, but these two are so good they can overcome that.
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The Hummingbirds
author: bill nedela
New Country, the Old Way! In the best sense. Great CD! Every song holds its own. Well-written, well-played, well-sung, well-everything. Rachel's vocals are sweet and then cutting. With a "country-heart" that comes across throughout her songs. Steve is "the Man" on the guitar with all those great licks and fills that put the songs in another gear. His vocals are like going back to best years of country.. HEART!!
Plus they are wonderful people. Good people make good music! Buy this CD you'll love it for years!
willy
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These Birds Can Hum!
author: Paul Erlandson
From the opening guitar licks of Gonna Be Alright (best truck-driving song in 30 years!), there is no doubt where the heart of this album lies. I'll just call it "Kick-ass Country". The pace quickens and slows, but all the songs (stories of love sought, lost, or deferred) form a well-integrated and coherent whole.
Can't Get You Off My Mind is pure old-school Country. Tables and Chairs is a drinking song in the vein of recent rockabilly artists Hotrod Lincoln. Feels Like Forever continues the Rockabilly sound. (Every young woman has tried to have this conversation with her mom at some point!)
Let's see, they've covered truck driving, drinking and romance ... what's left? Time for a jail song, which the bluesy Cell Five provides nicely. Heaven Help Us is a kind of low-key, quasi-gospel tune, with great Hawaiian-style steel guitar backing.
Sometimes on this album I hear echoes of John Prine or Gram Parsons or other forerunners of progressive country music ... but always The Hummingbirds manages to cover familiar musical and emotional territory without falling into cliche or losing the energy and the passion which rolls out from the voices and instruments throughout.
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