Carla (sort of) rocks

Carla,
originally uploaded by mcmrbt.

This Carla Bruni album is excellent. I love the sounds, and the songs are good too, with a real sense of enjoyment.

It's exactly my kind of recording. The kind where you think there might be a drummer on the track, but you can't really tell. The one I own that most resembles it is Easy by Kelly Willis. The key difference with similar things in country music is that they use banjo and mandolin as well as all the guitars, and they provide different frequencies and levels of attack, so the textures can be richer. Quelqu'un m'a dit is still a great record though.

A lot of singers and wannabe singers make the dreadful mistake of dragging on the tempo of a song. Sometimes you're in the driving seat, sometimes you're a passenger, but the one thing not to be is locked out of the vehicle and dragging behind with your scarf trapped in the door.

With the uptempo ones, Carla is a passenger, but she's a good passenger, keeps up with the song and makes a virtue out of the breathlessness. Excellent technique. This will be a smash hit by all the french girls I live with on our drive over to the in-laws at xmas.