Author: Elders, Betty

Release Date: 01-06-1998

Details: Amazon.ca Betty Elders is perhaps best known for co-writing "He Never Got Enough Love" with Lucinda Williams, but Elders's own recordings sound less like Williams's country-blues and more like the literary folkie records of Nanci Griffith, Patty Larkin, and Shawn Colvin. At its best, Crayons draws us into the interior world of a woman mulling over her desires and regrets in private. At its worst, the album descends into sentimentality. The singer's husband is Gene Elders, a longtime stalwart of George Strait's Ace in the Hole Band and one of the last great Texas fiddlers. He leads a wonderful string band, featuring mandolinist Paul Glasse and bassist Mitch Watkins, which makes the songs sound as good as they possibly could. The band is especially effective when Betty Elders gives them a real rhythmic pulse to work with, as she does on the lovely Celtic air, "My Father's Home" and the bluegrass-flavored homesick tune, "Roll on New River." --Geoffrey Himes

UPC: 018964064228

EAN: 0018964064228

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood