I've had this CD kicking around for years and have only just got around to listening. Really wonderful. One strange thing about the engineering I find most of the band is recorded well and natural, however guitar leads on the tracks have a terrible amount of distorted compression and most all the vocals when into the upper dynamics are really fried. You can hear the sound hitting the wall and push into a crackle smear. I can't find any reference to it other than an interview with Lucinda on the fits and starts of making the record. She was not happy with some of the sounds and heard what Steve Earle was doing on his own project at the time, which struck her as the solution and what she wanted. She had her producer listen to it and he said it sounded shit with way to much compression, but Ludinda insisted. So I am really hearing what I am hearing. Such a strange dicotamy of most of the tracks built around the vocals are fine and then Lucindas voice, what matters most, gets the brittle sizzle treatment.
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