"debonaire"
date taken: september 13, 2008
photo by: me
subject: the constant
"country," says jess. oh yeah? i can do you one better. johnny cash and hank williams are so obvious. how about some leann rimes.
so i cringed when i saw her in concert. can you blame me? she was screeching. no joke. and she was dressed like jewel's second coming (anyone remember the disaster that was?). aaaaand she went up right before james taylor. so really, it's amazing i remember i saw her in concert at all. i wish i could erase that from my memory entirely, and hold on to her sublime first single.
go ahead, play the song. so what if country isn't your bag. you better recognize. when leann hit the scene in 1996, she was 13. this song is an automatic jukebox hit. and if it sounds old, that's cause it is. it was written in the 60s, originally intended for the inimitable patsy cline, but she died before she could record it. but leann rimes, born in 1982, sounds just right singing this song. credible. like the girl's got the blues.
why oh why did leann stray from the purity of this track. now she's into some sort of crossover shit aimed at broadening her audience, in the process diluting her roots and devolving into a blonder and more forgettable shania twain.
bummer.
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