Shannon Curfman- Loud guitars, Big Suspicions
March 22nd 2009 04:41
Shannon Curfman- Loud guitars, Big Suspicions
Record Label: SBME Special Mkts
Year: 2008
Track Listing:
01. Few and Far Between
02. No Riders
03. True Friends
04. If You Change Your Mind
05. Love Me Like That
06. Playing With Fire
07. I Don’t Make Promises
08. Hard To Make A Stand
09. The Weight
10. Never Enough
11. I’m Coming Home
It’s almost impossible to comprehend that Shannon Curfman was only 13 years old when most of this album was recorded in 1999. With her big voice, loud guitars, the very thought is mind-boggling. The fact the album is not only well produced but the performance is outstanding says it all. With such a big voice, and loud guitars, it leaves you wonder where else could she go from here but up.
Curfman has been compared to Johnny Lang, who also comes from Fargo, North Dakota. It’s no surprise then that Lang would appear on this debut album for Curfman, and in fact co-wrote several of the songs.
It should be no surprise either that she’d been compared to Bonnie Raitt, and while it’s one of the biggest compliments a young girl can get, it’s one that is premature. While there is no doubt that with her big voice, and style she is an act that can hold her own, she still has plenty of time to mature into her music and stamp out her own distinctive style.
Curfman’s vocal style is impassioned and fiery, in particularly on the blues-ridden, guitar-searing ‘True Friends’. There’s the occasional hiccup from Curfman, but that’s more because of the weakness of the track rather than any weaknesses that Curfman, herself, might show.
Reviewing this album still leaves me boggled that this debut album is a 13-year-old, since 13-year-olds are not supposed to sound like this. They’re supposed to be more like the Many Moores, Christina Aguilera’s…even the Leann Rimes’s of the world.
The fact she either wrote or co-wrote nearly every song on this album shows a talent in itself. Throw in her gritty cover of Sheryl Crow’s ‘Hard To Stand’ and her cover of Robbie Robertson’s ‘The Weight’ and you have a brilliant debut album.
Curfman holds her own as a blues musician, and after hearing this album, I can’t wait to see if her follow up albums were just as good.
I give this 5/5
Official Site
myspace page
Record Label: SBME Special Mkts
Year: 2008
Track Listing:
01. Few and Far Between
02. No Riders
03. True Friends
04. If You Change Your Mind
05. Love Me Like That
06. Playing With Fire
07. I Don’t Make Promises
08. Hard To Make A Stand
09. The Weight
10. Never Enough
11. I’m Coming Home
It’s almost impossible to comprehend that Shannon Curfman was only 13 years old when most of this album was recorded in 1999. With her big voice, loud guitars, the very thought is mind-boggling. The fact the album is not only well produced but the performance is outstanding says it all. With such a big voice, and loud guitars, it leaves you wonder where else could she go from here but up.
Curfman has been compared to Johnny Lang, who also comes from Fargo, North Dakota. It’s no surprise then that Lang would appear on this debut album for Curfman, and in fact co-wrote several of the songs.
It should be no surprise either that she’d been compared to Bonnie Raitt, and while it’s one of the biggest compliments a young girl can get, it’s one that is premature. While there is no doubt that with her big voice, and style she is an act that can hold her own, she still has plenty of time to mature into her music and stamp out her own distinctive style.
Curfman’s vocal style is impassioned and fiery, in particularly on the blues-ridden, guitar-searing ‘True Friends’. There’s the occasional hiccup from Curfman, but that’s more because of the weakness of the track rather than any weaknesses that Curfman, herself, might show.
Reviewing this album still leaves me boggled that this debut album is a 13-year-old, since 13-year-olds are not supposed to sound like this. They’re supposed to be more like the Many Moores, Christina Aguilera’s…even the Leann Rimes’s of the world.
The fact she either wrote or co-wrote nearly every song on this album shows a talent in itself. Throw in her gritty cover of Sheryl Crow’s ‘Hard To Stand’ and her cover of Robbie Robertson’s ‘The Weight’ and you have a brilliant debut album.
Curfman holds her own as a blues musician, and after hearing this album, I can’t wait to see if her follow up albums were just as good.
I give this 5/5
Official Site
myspace page
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