Artist : Wailin Jennys

Album: Firecracker

Label: Red House

Release: June 6, 2006

Price: $13.99

Sales Rank: 1311

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Album Tracks

1 Devil's Paintbrush Road - The Wailin' Jennys, Chvostek, Annabelle
2 Glory Bound - The Wailin' Jennys, Moody, Ruth
3 Begin - The Wailin' Jennys, Mehta, Nicky
4 Things That You Know - The Wailin' Jennys, Moody, Ruth
5 Swallow - The Wailin' Jennys, Chvostek, Annabelle
6 Starlight - The Wailin' Jennys, Mehta, Nicky
7 Apocalypse Lullaby - The Wailin' Jennys, Chvostek, Annabelle
8 This Heart of Mine - The Wailin' Jennys, Moody, Ruth
9 Long Time Traveller - The Wailin' Jennys, Traditional
10 Avila - The Wailin' Jennys, Mehta, Nicky
11 Some Good Thing - The Wailin' Jennys, Mehta, Nicky
12 Prairie Town - The Wailin' Jennys, Moody, Ruth
13 Firecracker - The Wailin' Jennys, Chvostek, Annabelle

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Loved!

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: Perfect chillin on your own music. Kick everyone out and make dinner in peace with The Wailin Jenny's...or perfect for pluggin into the ipod and having some alone time in the hammock.

Inspiring

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: My first problem in quantifying my love of this album is classification: I can't strictly call this folk, country, bluegrass, roots rock, or any other known genre, so I lack a name. Maybe we can call it "Jenny Music." Its close vocal harmony, mildly syncopated rhythms, and mainly (though not exclusively) acoustic instrumentation hint at several top-selling genres without locking into any one of them.

But that refusal to stand still tells us why so many listeners enjoy this group. Genre purists may scratch their heads, but we who love music for itself hear how the musical artistry and unaffected lyrics speak truth through our ears. I can't help recalling the LPs my father played as I grew. After a boyhood of Bill Monroe, the Lennon Sisters, Chet Atkins, and Dolly Parton, this sound sings to me of home.

Lyrically, this album deals largely with estrangement and loss. "Maybe the time just wasn't right." "I'm leavin' this prairie town." "Live and die and gone." In times like ours, when society's rapid march leaves many of us feeling like nomads in our own homes, these themes touch is where we live. And the lyrics offer more subtle poetry than many of us hear on regular commercial pop radio.

At a time when we can charitably call much music coming out of conglomerate studios disappointing, the Wailin' Jennys inspire hope that somebody still cares about the songs on which they put their names. Unprepossessing but not timid, singable but not duplicable, the Jennys embody what makes music real. Even after all this time, I still get a charge out of these songs.

Excellent!

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: Beautiful voices and melodies. Every single tune seems to have been created for it to be unique, no plain stuff to fill in space in the album. Very relaxing and uplifting.

Lovely music

 Album Rating: (4 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: I first heard this music on Pandora radio. Loved the songs I heard so I bought the CD. The whole CD is good. Two of the songs are outstanding.

AWESOME!

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: I stumbled across the Wailin Jennys entirely by accident...and, boy, am I glad I did. Their music is absolutely wonderful to listen to and this is one of my favorite cds of all time!

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