It’s not just the fact that Amanda Shires and sometimes sound exactly like Dolly Parton, there is nothing in the whole of the envelope as if it might have been dolly’s next project, following the ”9 to 5”. The same mix of peppig attitude, impish sense of humor, kind, sentimental, and the sight of hitkänsla.
The Highwomen of four female singers that have taken the names from the atmosphere of country music’s most cherished supergroup The Highwaymen, and on the title song ”Highwayman” to the feminist credo for all time. In various configurations, they have written songs about all of what women can be, and sometimes they are broken off. And ‘ If she ever leaves me,” in which the gayikonen Brandi Carlile sings it straight, lesbian, countrylåt.
a hobby project, it sounds like everyone involved has brought their best ideas to the table, and, if not superstars, so they should be there by now.
Best tracks: ”Redesigning women”, ”Wheels of Laredo.”
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