Comments on: Alison Krauss, A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:06:29 +0000

Personally, I think 5 stars is a bit overrated. The album was great, but 90% of the songs were soft ballads.

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Recommendation VI: Alison Krauss « iCF Music — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:17:35 +0000

[...] just grips you in and it portrays the real-life story so so well. I read a review of this song on Country Universe and Kevin, the blogger there, comments that the song “end[s] either in tragedy or glory, [...]

By: Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:09:44 +0000

I’ve listened to the album seversl times through – I should have said “with its brilliant instrumental track” . Other than that I stand by everything I said. As for “missed by a mile” the review was originally on Amazon and generated much positive feedback . I said if you pulled off the first four tracks you’d have a 4.5 star album – that’s not being condescending (unless you feel that reviewers always should positively gush over the product being reviewed)

Calling my review condescending – now that’s condescending !

By: John Pennell

John Pennell — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:26:17 +0000

Paul Dennis swung at a high hard one and missed it by a mile. My song aside, Sarah Siskind’s “Simple Love” is breathtakingly beautiful and Dennis’ comparison of Alison’s interpretation of “Your Just A Country Boy” to “Your Squaw Is On The Warpath” is just impudent and foolish critique. But the real boner in this review is calling “Sawing On The Strings” an instrumental. Did he even listen to this album before he wrote this condascending review? Tony Rice’s solo on “Sawin’” is brilliant, but so is Alison’s vocal. No, it’s not an instrumental(“Sawing On The Strings”).

John Pennell

By: Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Sat, 05 May 2007 14:30:18 +0000

Contrarian that I am, I don’t regard this as being close to a five star album. Don’t get me wrong, I liked the album (I purchased it) and I gave it 3.5 stars in a review I posted on Amazon. The problem is that there are some serious misfires among the 16 tracks on the album. The opening and closing tracks are both covers of Don Williams classics and both misguided. Changing the opening track “You’re Just A Country Boy” to the feminine perspective was a serious misjudgment – it doesn’t work any better than coverting “Your Squaw Is On The Warpath” to the masculine perspective would work. The closing track “Lay Down Beside Me” is ruined by John Waite’s vocals

Ms Krauss has a voice that works best when played off against another vocalist, even if only a harmony vocalist. The four solo Alison tracks (the opening four numbers) are nothing more than okay. If you pulled off tracks 1-4 and 16 you’d have a 4.5 star album. “Sawing On The Strings” (an instrumental) and “Molly Ban (Bawn) ” with the Chieftains are both full 5 star efforts with “Whiskey Lullably” with Brad Paisley and “Down To The River To Pray” with a vocal choir being close to 5 star efforts.

By: Brody

Brody — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:29:29 +0000

I’m not a fan of the John Waite duets, but overall I thought it was an exceptional album and was intrigued that she did something different by compiling songs that weren’t released on of her previous albums.

By: CF

CF — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:42:17 +0000

Ah, I’ve been so busy the last two weeks, so it’s good to come back here and read a great review.

I bought this album last week on Tuesday because I really liked what I heard from the clips and I really wanted the Cold Mountain tracks really badly. I did already own the Wait duet: “MY”, the Taylor duet, and Paisley duet, and those are excellent songs, but I still wanted the other songs. I was going to buy Martina’s too but changed my mind.