Review of Mudshow Album by Krista Detor
Krista Detor
Mudshow
Album Review
Female singer-songwriters have such a hard time breaking out of a pigeon-hole. Although Krista Detor writes and performs on piano, her songs are wonderfully produced by David Weber, and unconstrained by the whole lounge singer effect.
Like the best of Suzanne Vega, Sarah McLachlan or Joni Mitchell, Detor strays closer to a writer like Leonard Cohen in the lushness of the story, lyrically and cinematically. Her voice is a smoky, sultry version of Shawn Colvin, or KT Tunstall, her songs nicely varied in tempo and feel, with a fantastic intensity to the telling. Mudshow can do double duty - an album that you could happily play at a sophisticated dinner party, and one that rewards private investigation - Tori Amos without the stridency. Your dinner guests, on first listen, would comment favourably on how good it is to hear someone several notches above a Madeleine Peyroux or Katie Melua - you, with the lyrics deep inside you, would know exactly how true that is.
4/5
Mike Rea
Site - http://www.kristadetor.com
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