专辑名称：Balls

唱片公司：Thirty Tigers

歌手姓名：Elizabeth Cook  

发行日期：2007年05月14日

专辑语言：英文

专辑风格：Country

If women had balls, as Elizabeth Cook metaphorically suggests in “Sometimes It Takes Balls To Be a Woman,” Cook’s would be melonesque in size. Relatively unknown, despite recording above par music for a while now, Cook is finally making a splash among critics and fans alike with Balls. The album is produced by a Nashville veteran, Rodney Crowell, and Mrs. Cook boasts writing credits on 9 of the 11 songs.

Balls opens by joyously lamenting the tough times in rock and roll and righteously celebrating the country music style that perseveres. The song stops short of saying rock and roll sold out, but it’s implied through lyrics like “reason is to feel this way / Rollin’ Stone has seen its day / all my feelings / all my fears / were confirmed with Britney Spears.” It has a comical feel punctuated by the bouncing juice harp in the background.

Bobby Bare, Jr.’s gruff intro to “Rest Your Weary Mind” provides a stark contrast to Cook’s twangy, drawn out vocals and the haunting fiddles in one of the most beautiful songs on the album. It leaves you wanting more of the same, which she dutifully delivers with “Mama’s Prayers,” a song that has an uncanny resemblance to Dolly Parton, a Velvet Revolver cover with “Sunday Morning,” the chilling “Down Girl,” and the album closing “Always Tomorrow.”

Rodney Crowell did a superb job producing the album by finding the perfect balance between fast and slow songs and placing them in an order that leads to a superior listening experience (ie: it doesn’t feel like you’re listening to an album full of singles). Elizabeth Cook comes off as refreshingly genuine in her approach to each song.

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01. Times Are Tough In Rock N' Roll  

02. Don't Go Borrowin' Trouble  

03. Sometimes It Takes Balls To Be A Woman  

04. Rest Your Weary Mind (with Bobby Bare, Jr.)  

05. He Got No Heart  

06. Mama's Prayers  

07. Sunday Morning  

08. What Do I Do  

09. Down Girl  

10. Gonna Be  

11. Always Tomorrow

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呵呵,谢谢楼主的音乐,很好听,很喜欢这种明快节奏的音乐! :s_12: