MARGIE LeBLANC
“Live At The Opry”
I’ll Be There – Above & Beyond – Miles
& Miles of Texas – Faded Love – Once A Day – Farewell Party – Don’t
Worry ‘Bout Me – Always Have, Always Will – I Can’t See Texas From Here –
Heartaches By The Numbers – Stand By Your Man – Don’t Touch Me –
Clinging To A Saving Hand
& Miles of Texas – Faded Love – Once A Day – Farewell Party – Don’t
Worry ‘Bout Me – Always Have, Always Will – I Can’t See Texas From Here –
Heartaches By The Numbers – Stand By Your Man – Don’t Touch Me –
Clinging To A Saving Hand
The instant recognition of what Margie LeBlanc does with
country music is the fact that she is in control. She knows exactly
what she wants to accomplish with her songs, and it doesn’t take long
for the backing musicians to understand this, thusly bringing her music
exactly to the interpretation that she is making of it. Just as soon as
you hear her sing, you recognize instantly that she is steeped in the
music known as ‘country’ long before it was plagiarized and turned into a
kind of nothing music of today. This CD is an instant return, as well
as a tremendously enjoyable ‘today’ experience, listening to ‘country’
music as a very real genre of music. This is very unlike so-called
country music of today, which in the minds and ears of most real country
music fans, is a very very pale imitation of what country music in the
past was, and still is in the voice and determination of a country
singer like Margie LeBlanc. This very nicely recorded CD was done
‘live’ at the Liberty Opry, down Liberty, Texas way, with some amazingly
good ‘real’ country musicians. Why do I keep talking about ‘real’
country musicians. It’s simple, this is the music of choice for these
players. They aren’t really concerned with playing anything and
everything that comes down the pike, and then attach the name ‘country’
to something that is everything but that. So that makes them honest,
sincere, and simply very very good at what they do. The same goes for
Margie. This combination is hard to beat, when you bring together good
musicians with a tremendously good vocalist. “Live’ recordings are very
difficult to do without a ‘master’ at the sound board, trying to match
the front speakers with an equally good ‘taped’ sound. In some spots the
drums are a bit loud, but on the whole, this is one of those rare
recordings where everything melded together, not only with Margie, and
the band, but also with the very appreciative listening audience.
Margie LeBlanc is making the trip to LeMars, Iowa, the first week of
September (2015) to receive a “Lifetime Achievement” award from the
National Traditional Country Music Assn. who has been doing this for 40
years now. Her ceremony will take place on Sept. 4th at 8pm, and all
are welcome to see this marvelous woman be honored for her many years of
contributing to the ‘real’ sound of ‘real’ country music. I’m also
interested in who the musicians are, not named on this CD, simply
because they are the very heart of enhancing a truly gifted vocalist.
country music is the fact that she is in control. She knows exactly
what she wants to accomplish with her songs, and it doesn’t take long
for the backing musicians to understand this, thusly bringing her music
exactly to the interpretation that she is making of it. Just as soon as
you hear her sing, you recognize instantly that she is steeped in the
music known as ‘country’ long before it was plagiarized and turned into a
kind of nothing music of today. This CD is an instant return, as well
as a tremendously enjoyable ‘today’ experience, listening to ‘country’
music as a very real genre of music. This is very unlike so-called
country music of today, which in the minds and ears of most real country
music fans, is a very very pale imitation of what country music in the
past was, and still is in the voice and determination of a country
singer like Margie LeBlanc. This very nicely recorded CD was done
‘live’ at the Liberty Opry, down Liberty, Texas way, with some amazingly
good ‘real’ country musicians. Why do I keep talking about ‘real’
country musicians. It’s simple, this is the music of choice for these
players. They aren’t really concerned with playing anything and
everything that comes down the pike, and then attach the name ‘country’
to something that is everything but that. So that makes them honest,
sincere, and simply very very good at what they do. The same goes for
Margie. This combination is hard to beat, when you bring together good
musicians with a tremendously good vocalist. “Live’ recordings are very
difficult to do without a ‘master’ at the sound board, trying to match
the front speakers with an equally good ‘taped’ sound. In some spots the
drums are a bit loud, but on the whole, this is one of those rare
recordings where everything melded together, not only with Margie, and
the band, but also with the very appreciative listening audience.
Margie LeBlanc is making the trip to LeMars, Iowa, the first week of
September (2015) to receive a “Lifetime Achievement” award from the
National Traditional Country Music Assn. who has been doing this for 40
years now. Her ceremony will take place on Sept. 4th at 8pm, and all
are welcome to see this marvelous woman be honored for her many years of
contributing to the ‘real’ sound of ‘real’ country music. I’m also
interested in who the musicians are, not named on this CD, simply
because they are the very heart of enhancing a truly gifted vocalist.
REVIEW BY BOB EVERHART – www.ntcma.net
for Country Music News International Magazine