DIANNE LINDSAY
All Things Country
Part Of Me – R.M. – Akubras In The Snow –
That Old Blue Dog Of Mine – Chimney In The Paddock – On The Night Train –
Stoke’s Trail – Last Of The Sunshine Cowboys – Dog Without His Mack –
Living In The Shadow Of The Horseshoe – Leave Him In The Longyard –
Fletcher’s Place – The Salvo – Old Tobacco Tin – Country Music My Friend
That Old Blue Dog Of Mine – Chimney In The Paddock – On The Night Train –
Stoke’s Trail – Last Of The Sunshine Cowboys – Dog Without His Mack –
Living In The Shadow Of The Horseshoe – Leave Him In The Longyard –
Fletcher’s Place – The Salvo – Old Tobacco Tin – Country Music My Friend
I’m a ‘Blessed’ record reviewer. I guess it’s just how
things happen, but I’ve just listened to a country and western CD by
Royal Wade Kimes, a super good singer-songwriter, and here I am with
album number two by a very very good singer-songwriter, a real cow-girl
from Australia. Dianne is one of those gifted vocalists that inside her
soul she recognizes what ‘real’ country music is all about. It’s about
‘real’ things, ‘real’ experiences, ‘real’ adventures, ‘real’ life. It
is such a pleasant feeling to hear this pretty girl singing. Right off
the bat, she opens with one of her own songs (there are no less than
eight songs of a Lindsay/Simpson origin on this album) with Rod
McCormack gallantly stepping forward with a terrific Dobro sound. Yes,
all the way through this wonderful listening experience we hear some of
the best ‘acoustic’ instruments and instrument players available in
Australia. It’s always been a puzzle to me how a country so far away,
so big and still so unsettled in much of it’s borders, can still be so
attuned to what ‘real’ country music is all about. No problem here,
just ask the fiddler Mick Albeck, or the harmonica player Trent
Williamson, and they will certainly tell you what ‘real’ country music
is. They demonstrate that ‘country way of life’ here as faithfully and
originally as anything I’ve heard in recent years. I also really like
the rhythm guitar backing. It’s not overloaded with long lengthy ‘licks
and leads’ but stays right behind Dianne in every song she does. A lot
of these songs are ‘family’ created, and what fun that must be to kick
the ideas around, get the melody started, let the words proceed, hear
the ‘product’ as it’s created. What a treat it is for this family to be
able to do that, and then listen to this CD they have created and
‘wonder’ wow did we do that? Like all good CD’s, no matter where they
come from, this one will be forwarded to the Rural Roots Music
Commission for their listening pleasure. How can they resist a song
like “That Old Blue Dog of Mine?” Well they can’t, so Dianne, not
knowing what your situation is in Australia, I’d certainly start putting
some coins in the piggy-bank actively looking forward to a “CD of the
Year” award from these country folks up here in America’s most ‘rural’
state, Iowa, where you can do the collecting
things happen, but I’ve just listened to a country and western CD by
Royal Wade Kimes, a super good singer-songwriter, and here I am with
album number two by a very very good singer-songwriter, a real cow-girl
from Australia. Dianne is one of those gifted vocalists that inside her
soul she recognizes what ‘real’ country music is all about. It’s about
‘real’ things, ‘real’ experiences, ‘real’ adventures, ‘real’ life. It
is such a pleasant feeling to hear this pretty girl singing. Right off
the bat, she opens with one of her own songs (there are no less than
eight songs of a Lindsay/Simpson origin on this album) with Rod
McCormack gallantly stepping forward with a terrific Dobro sound. Yes,
all the way through this wonderful listening experience we hear some of
the best ‘acoustic’ instruments and instrument players available in
Australia. It’s always been a puzzle to me how a country so far away,
so big and still so unsettled in much of it’s borders, can still be so
attuned to what ‘real’ country music is all about. No problem here,
just ask the fiddler Mick Albeck, or the harmonica player Trent
Williamson, and they will certainly tell you what ‘real’ country music
is. They demonstrate that ‘country way of life’ here as faithfully and
originally as anything I’ve heard in recent years. I also really like
the rhythm guitar backing. It’s not overloaded with long lengthy ‘licks
and leads’ but stays right behind Dianne in every song she does. A lot
of these songs are ‘family’ created, and what fun that must be to kick
the ideas around, get the melody started, let the words proceed, hear
the ‘product’ as it’s created. What a treat it is for this family to be
able to do that, and then listen to this CD they have created and
‘wonder’ wow did we do that? Like all good CD’s, no matter where they
come from, this one will be forwarded to the Rural Roots Music
Commission for their listening pleasure. How can they resist a song
like “That Old Blue Dog of Mine?” Well they can’t, so Dianne, not
knowing what your situation is in Australia, I’d certainly start putting
some coins in the piggy-bank actively looking forward to a “CD of the
Year” award from these country folks up here in America’s most ‘rural’
state, Iowa, where you can do the collecting
RECORD REVIEW BY BOB EVERHART, President NTCMA. www.ntcma.net
for Country Music News International