Country for True Lovers

Eleni Mandell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 28, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Zedtone
• ASIN: B000089CJT
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #208,910 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #96 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > Singer Songwriters

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic country for the new millenium, April 25, 2003

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This review is from: Country for True Lovers (Audio CD)

Excellent musicianship, top-quality production, fantastic performance. Eleni Mandell has a voice perfectly suited for the "music of pain," and she wrings a lot out of it here. The instrumentation is blissfully simple and never distracting; a perfect companion for Mandell's spare vocalizations. If you have ever mistaken a Garth Brooks tune for something by N' Sync, but know old Hank Williams and Patsy Cline tunes by heart, this is an album you'll appreciate.

Grab Country for True Lovers, K.D. Lang's Shadowland, and Neko Case's Furnace Room Lullabies, and you'll be set for a whole evening of two-stepping and crying in your beer when your best friend steals your girl, and your dog drives off with your truck.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful, April 8, 2003

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This review is from: Country for True Lovers (Audio CD)

Great songs. Great voice. Great musicians. Varied material, influenced by traditional country, blues, Tom Waits, 80s new wave, and who knows what else. Mandell should be a superstar, if this status were determined by quality of her material. This applies to all her albums, not just this one, although County for True Lovers is easiest on the ears at first listening. (She could come up with a better title though...) Highly recommended.

Also, try to catch one of her concerts. I saw her perform at a tiny cafe in Sacramento, and it was one of the best shows I've been to in years.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Something a little different..., March 5, 2003

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Scott (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Country for True Lovers (Audio CD)

Eleni Mandell's 'Country For True Lovers' a bit of leap in style from her fantastic, wildly diverse debut 'Wishbone' and its sister follow-up 'Thrill'. But not quite different from her previous album: the rough-edged, acoustically driven 'Snakebite'.
I'm not too familiar with traditional country, or the work of the legendary recording artists who inspired Ms. Eleni to create this lovely collection of honky-tonk and heartache (my knowledge of twang only goes as far as Neko Case), but Eleni could be reading from the phone book, and I'd still be sold. Her voice is that good!
Needless to say, her fans and the un-initiated will love it to pieces. Among others, my favourites are Iowa City, and the campy You're All Bad (And That's Why You've Been Invited), the title alone is one of the best I've seen in a long time!
One minor note: I wish Eleni's rare, still-only-on-45-vinyl song Turn Out The Lights would've been included, maybe as a secret unlisted track at the disc's end. Aside than that, a fine piece of work (recorded in just 14 days!) from one talented lady whose music I discovered by pure chance.