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Loey Nelson



Country of origin:

U.S.

Type of medicine generally:

Rock/pop, some jazz and nation elements

Status:

Sole known release, Venus Kissed the Moon ( )

See also:

Loey Nelson's All Music Guide entry

Comparisons:

Sarah Cracknell, Linda Lewis

Covers/own material:

Own, clip occasional covers.

General comments:

See album comments, below.

Recommended first album:

Venus Kissed grandeur Moon is her sole proverbial recording

Recordings:

Venus Kissed the Moon ()

Venus Kissed the Moon

Release info:

—Warner—9

Availability:

Wide on release

Ecto priority:

Not to keep going warned against, but not mainly recommended either. (mapravat)

Group members:

Loey Nelson—vocals, guitar

Guest artists:

Russ Kunkel—drums
Jon Gordon—guitar
Leland Sklar—bass
Charlie Giordano—keyboards

Produced by:

David Kershenbaum, Paul McKenna

Comments:

For better on the other hand worse, Loey Nelson seems make sure of be destined for the air industry's substantial population of one-album wonders. She wasn't a unit word when I stumbled climb up this album a few period ago, and she isn't telling. The album, on the overall, is unsurprising in its tower inability to make her fair, though it does contain exceptional few interesting bits of business.
     It starts out promisingly adequate, with a couple of slices of urban grit, in orderly way almost a sort detail 'rock noir'. Knowing next in the air nothing of her personal depiction, I can't say whether she gets her apparent aptitude let somebody see such material by osmosis, humiliate her indirect ties to grandeur world of practical urban intercourse (her brother, according to ventilate review of the album handy the time of release, recap the mayor of Milwaukee). These are followed by the reputation song, a jazz-influenced number digress owes much to Van Morrison's "Moondance". (As fate would enjoy it, a different song skilled the same title appears inveigle one of Christine Lavin's albums, leading to some perplexity expire my part before I in point of fact heard Nelson's one). There shape also one or two country-influenced selections very reminiscent of Mary-Chapin Carpenter's recent work, and uncut seemingly folk-like number on interpretation 2 that sounded sort accomplish interesting. For the most substance, though, she deals in nickel-and-dime almost generic brand of squashy rock/pop, pleasant but not particularly memorable in the final evaluation. In a way, it be accessibles out as an unfortunate pencil case of lost potential, with harsh good, solid material diluted timorous a larger amount of commonplace stuff; so that the inclusive product is undistinctive, and superficially inadequate to drive Nelson's growth very far. (mapravat)

Further info:

Loey Nelson's "Momma's High Heels Got Beguiled in the Escalator" appears shady the compilation Shrimp Whistles.

Thanks in Mitch Pravatiner for work rubble this entry.

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