Love Chooses You

Laurie Lewis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 29, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Flying Fish Records
• ASIN: B000000MNF
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #377,009 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Talented musician and songwriter, May 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Love Chooses You (Audio CD)

This is my favorite of Laurie Lewis' work- it showcases both her wonderful fiddling and beautiful lyrics- many which she wrote herself. I am amazed at how little she is known considering the talent she has. Nightbird and The Light are some of the most beautiful and haunting songs I've ever heard. Please come back to Seattle for another performance!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Worth it for the songs, March 1, 2004

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Tony Thomas (SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Chooses You (Audio CD)

Well, you can't really put Allison etc on Laurie. Laurie's really an instrumentally gifted continuator of the California country folk music most excellently done by the author of the title song the great Kate Wolf. Laurie is so much classier, more honest, and direct and a better tighter leader and musician.

Of course, this isn't what I desire if I am buying a bluegrass album for my bluegrass taste. The album is led and produced, the songs are arranged to put the singing first, and the singing is almost always non bluegrass and the band isn't particularly bluegrass here. The songs are put first. The star of this record is Laurie's great clear and expressive singing, her and other's song. Laurie's playing here on guitar, banjo, and fiddle great here and the sidemen and women she brings onto this CD as guests are superb. You buy it for the singing and the songs.

In a certain way, Laurie has used the tools of bluegrass and other forms of older country music and folk to express herself in her own songs and in a very good selection of songwriter songs and traditional tunes. She's not trying to replace Kenny Baker or masquerade as Hazel Dickens. She's also speaking to a lot of reality. I love the Hills of Home here, because I have never really seen the hills of Kentucky or West Virginia, but I truly miss the Berkeley Hills Laurie sings about here.

I also happen to like "I'd Be Lost without You," which gives you a small dose of Laurie's other musical persona as a top notch big jazz band bass player and mistress of that music as well with a real torch song.

The song I bought this album for, indeed, the song that got me to notice Laurie is "Texas Bluebonnets." I heard her sing it at Merle Fest, I think in 1992 or 1993. She did it with Grant Street the band she was part of then, and did a great twin fiddle rendition of Adolph Hofner's Jesse Polka an old South Texas Czech tune in the break in this tune. It's a great tune which is an amalgam of Tex Mex and Western Swing. On this album the Great Buddy Emmons sits in and does some great breaks. The song is great, I kept playing it on the guitar both western and Mexicano for weeks after I go this record just to sing it. On this CD it is a real picker's piece.

And Laurie keeps singing, keeps picking, keeps doing it better and better too!

5.0 out of 5 stars Laura Chooses You, May 10, 2009

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SD Webgal (Southern CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Chooses You (Audio CD)

I have seen Laura Lewis and her great band many times spanning years ago now. I have all of her music. Loves Chooses You is my favorite. I am thrilled that she continues to create ballads which spin stories and enchant the wee ones. Her voice is magical and is smoothe as silk. This CD is especially meaningful to me with the title track. I have found the same Truth in Laura's lyrics. Girl, you go! I knew you "when".