Little Amber Bottles

Blanche | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 2, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Original Signal
• ASIN: B000VBIGM2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,216 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #86 in Music > Indie Music > Country > Alt-Country & Americana

Editorial Reviews

2007 sophomore album from the Gothic Folk revivalists, best known for helping back Loretta Lynn on her Jack White-produced comeback album Van Leer Rose. 12 tracks including 'I'm Sure Of It', 'No Matter Where You Go' (featuring Isobel Campbell) and 'Last Year's Leaves'. Loose. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blanche is gritty despite the name, November 15, 2007

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Donald Harrington (Sun-scorched deserts of the Southwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Amber Bottles (Audio CD)

I recently began to pay attention to Spin magazine's website and its constant listing of alternative music. That's how I found Blanche and their anthem "What This Town Needs". This is authentic music, played from the heart. The growly male vocals of Dan John Miller interact well with Tracee Mae Miller's dusky female voice, and the end result sounds earnest, entreating and yet independent. The musicians are all good and the selections are choice, including spirituals and other root music cheek-to-jowl with ambiguously dark originals. It can't be described in just words (why would it be music if it could?) so go out and listen to this now.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice band - nice record.., February 7, 2008

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Knut Einar Sundlisaeter "kes" (Oslo, Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Amber Bottles (Audio CD)

If you`re already a fan of alternative country music and indierock, you will probably like this album. The songs makes me think of several related bands and artists like; The Handsome Family, Lambchop, Calexico, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra. It`s a diversified album with its own distinctive sound, well-produced, with many nice songs, which immediately brings me in a good mood when I listen to them. Blanche is really a band to fall in love with, as someone mentioned earlier.

So I`ve already become a huge fan of this album, despite some mediocre songs, which is the reason I gave 4,5 and not 5 stars. In my opinion, the strongest and most catchy tunes are: "I`m sure of it", "Last year`s leaves", "No matter where you go", "Little amber bottles", "World I used to be afraid of" and "World`s largest crucifix". Briefly spoken, this is a strong record from a skilful band. Strongly recommended!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blanche 's latest collection is outstanding!, October 11, 2007

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P. Leonard (Detroit, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Amber Bottles (Audio CD)

As to be expected, the latest offering from Detoits' finest twangers

is brilliant. A little lighter feel than the first album, but still

very haunting in it's own way. Dan Miller and company are the real deal.

Great mix and production(Thanks Feeney!) Everyone who I have introduced this band to has became an instant fan. Enjoy!!! (If you get the chance

to see them live, make it happen, always a wonderful show!)