Before we get to the woman in question, Todd Adelman and his sonic gang make the sort of sound that makes country music (Americana, alt-country…call it what you will) look good. If such genres seem to follow a well-worn template, you know, music with a gung-ho vibe about lonesome urban cowboys, pick-up trucks and jingoistic pride, “Kind of Woman (Who Makes the Morning Look Good)” is everything we have been looking for to redress the balance. There is a lot to be said about Adelman’s own tag for his brand of music…Western Soul.
Blending folky understatement with twanging early country-rock meets surf-guitar sound, and soaked through with a hazy, gorgeously atmospheric undertone, it is a song that evokes the heartache of separation, a song of love and longing, but one that is that rare thing… honest, authentic, believable.
But then, with a collective resume that runs from The Lounge Lizards to Rosanne Cash, Chris Robinson’s Brotherhood to Steve Earle (and that is just the tip of the iceberg), you know that this is an outfit about as musically sure-footed as it gets.
They say that you can tell a lot about someone by the company that they keep; given the musicians Adelman surrounds himself with, I would say that he belongs in a rarified and highly respected pantheon of music makers.
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