It's our first sponsored event! Music Fog is getting ready for the California tour with Elliot Randall and Gina Villalobos, and so we are going to bring you review of Gina's 4th CD, which just came out. She of the reedy voice, and that wonderful tough -yet vulnerable dichotomy. You might recall that legendary BBC announcer Bob Harris heralded her 2005 debut Rock N Roll Pony as "a contender for album of the year." Villalobos music is informed by her California childhood, and the stuff her parents turned her on to from the 70's, Willie and Waylon, Kristofferson, and Ronstadt. Her music resonates with the tunefulness, the attention to craft, plus brings an Alt. sensibility that anchors it firmly in TODAY.
- Jessie -
Cut 1 "Take A Beating" - aching lyrics, stop time instrumentation
Cut 3 "String It Out" - a bit of talk-singing, beautiful guitar fills
Cut 4: "Ring Around My Room" - love the melody, pure and true
Cut 5 "Crazy"- the jingle jangle lives here
Cut 8 "Pictures Of Pictures" -dreamy, beautiful
Cut 9 "Falling Away" - alternately quiet and big
Cut 11 "Second Chance" - wound tight lyric, driving chorus