Betty Elders, Crayons - 60m 35s

Tracks & Durations

1. The Long Night	4:13
2. Just to Have You Hum Along (The Futon Song)	4:47
3. My Father's Home	3:50
4. Pastel	4:06
5. Crayons	4:26
6. War Between Fears	6:08
7. Silver Wheels³	5:55
8. Gypsy's Jewel	4:30
9. What Love Can Do	4:05
10. Friend of Mine	3:51
11. Roll On New River	5:44
12. In My Dreams	4:21
13. In This Place of My Forgiveness	4:31

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Review

Betty Elders is perhaps best known for co-writing "He Never Got Enough Love" with Lucinda Williams, but Elders's own recordings sound less like Williams's country-blues and more like the literary folkie records of Nanci Griffith, Patty Larkin, and Shawn Colvin. At its best, Crayons draws us into the interior world of a woman mulling over her desires and regrets in private. At its worst, the album descends into sentimentality. The singer's husband is Gene Elders, a longtime stalwart of George Strait's Ace in the Hole Band and one of the last great Texas fiddlers. He leads a wonderful string band, featuring mandolinist Paul Glasse and bassist Mitch Watkins, which makes the songs sound as good as they possibly could. The band is especially effective when Betty Elders gives them a real rhythmic pulse to work with, as she does on the lovely Celtic air, "My Father's Home" and the bluegrass-flavored homesick tune, "Roll on New River." --Geoffrey Himes

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