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RS: 3of 5 Stars

2002

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How's this for a back story: Chip Taylor, the guy who wrote "Wild Thing," perhaps the greatest dumb rock song of all time, then became an successful professional gambler, discovers Carrie Rodriguez, a twenty-four-year-old fiddle-playing babe, and finds out she's a star. It's all true, and the proof is in this sweet record of country-folk duets. Town is by turns cosmic, whimsical and tender: "Him Who Saved Me" is a moving, gospel-tinged number with a post-apocalyptic subtext, and "There's a Hole in the Midnight" is a slow country waltz with a psychedelic touch. Rodriguez plays a funky fiddle, but her singing is the soul of the record: She gives Town a plain charm, and despite Taylor's lyrical sophistication, it always feels like a boot-scuffing fireside jam.

PAT BLASHILL
(RS 911 – December 12, 2002)



(Posted: Nov 19, 2002)

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