Mirador

Tarnation

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 1997)
• Original Release Date: April 8, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Reprise/ Time Warner
• ASIN: B000002NCT
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #179,943 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Check this record out if you're bored stiff with the bleak, gray sameness of Mazzy Star-style gothic pop folk. While Gentle Creatures maintained a solemn tone throughout, Georgia singer Paula Fraser and band show far more pace, variety, and high, campy spirit here. "An Awful Shade of Blue," for instance, is like Marty Robbins in a high noon shootout with Ennio Morricone and the Cowboy Junkies--which, happily, is as much fun in practice as theory. Chris Isaak should take notes from "Like a Ghost," a lonesome whistle haunts "A Place Where I Know," and there's a twangy surf feel to "There's Someone." Fun fun fun 'til daddy takes the hearse away. --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Takes me back to the southwest where I grew up, January 14, 2002

By	Jonathan Levitt (Somerville, Ma United States) - See all my reviews

I will be brief, I bought this cd quite by chance , I had read a review somewhere, and when I put it on, I was blown away, I think Paula Frazer's voice reminds me of some vision on 1950's radio playing in a dusty southwestern town, where the landscape is dry and you have to keep out of the sun. Her voice lilts and glides over hazy, turbulent guitar. From the cool artwork to the sexy sound, This band deserves high praise those of us who grew up in the southwest will love this, and those who wish to go there for 1 hour try this disc. Lovely.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tex-Noir, September 2, 2001

By	B. Lane "baronl" (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In the company of Calexico, Nicco Case and her Boyfriends and Johnny Cash on a three day cocaine binge there is the shimmery-heat oasis of Tarnation. As cool as a mescal margarita and as quick to go to your head.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars unbelievable, December 7, 1999

By	C. Clemens "random lunatic" (a big pile of dirt, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Paula Fraser does it again ... this album is a bit less dreamy than Gentle Creatures (a FABULOUS album), but this album has a bit more punch to it! Paula sings beautifully, flawlessly, and the guitar work is genius ... i usually listen to this album for days at a time.