Robin Holcomb, The Big Time - 44m 28s

Tracks & Durations

1. Pretend	4:20
2. Like I Care	4:30
3. Sit Right Down	2:20
4. You Look So Much Better	3:46
5. A Lazy Farmer Boy	2:44
6. If You Can't Make the Curve	3:31
7. I Want to Tell the Story	3:40
8. Engine 143	6:01
9. I Tried to Believe	4:12
10. The Big Time	3:14
11. Tell the Good Friend on Your Left	4:40
12. Lullaby	1:23

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Review

It has been 10 years since Robin Holcomb's previous album of vocal songs, and it might take listeners another decade to absorb all the nuances, textures, and deceptive complexities of this diverse collection. Her vocal trill has the Appalachian purity of Dolly Parton's, her spare piano playing sounds like Randy Newman at certain moments and like the Anglican hymnal at others, and the oblique originality of her material finds a kindred spirit in Laurie Anderson's performance art. The result is roots music whose roots extend from traditional folk ("A Lazy Farmer Boy," "Engine 143") to classical avant-garde ("Pretend," "I Want to Tell the Story"). Those who prized the austere simplicity of Holcomb's earlier recordings will have to adjust to the electronic atmospherics provided by keyboardist/producer/husband Wayne Horvitz and his band Zony Mash, joined by guitarist Bill Frisell. Ethereal harmonies from Kate and Anna McGarrigle highlight the bittersweet "Like I Care" and the closing "Lullaby." --Don McLeese2002 release from Seattle based singer-songwriter-pianist Robin Holcomb after a long hiatus. With a style that weaves together disparate musical strands, her songs evoke the rough-hewn feel of mountain music and country hymns complemented by piano in a sparse style like the Shakers had written music in the style of Debussy. Slipcase.

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