My Best Yesterday

Jill Olson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 4, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Innerstate
• ASIN: B0000657UW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #668,052 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back and Better Than Ever!, January 5, 2003

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John Bliss (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Best Yesterday (Audio CD)

Jill Olson's LONG awaited follow-up to "The Gal Who Would Be King" delivers just what her fans have needed. The music is more assured, the lyrics have greater emotional resonance, and her voice is more confident. Olson has honky-tonk in her heart and retro-pop in her soul, but she's smart enough to transcend mere genre work. She writes about the stuff of normal life -- hearing your lover on the phone to their ex-lover, living in a neighborhood you love but your friends think is creepy -- but spins it into something grander. The title tune is an unabashed love song ("You 'n me together is so much better than my best yesterday."), but it's delivered with so much heart, and such a lack of mawkish sentiment, that it delights. As does this terrific new outing from one of our great undiscovered talents.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wholesome Jill Olson Makes the Grade, July 24, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: My Best Yesterday (Audio CD)

Best known for her work with hokey honky-tonkers RED MEAT (whose Olson-penned tune "Broken Up and Blue" is featured on the MONSTER'S BALL soundtrack), Wholesome Jill Olson packs a melancholy pop wallop on her new one "My Best Yesterday." Produced by Dave Alvin, Olson's new CD mixes folk-rock jangle with the hard-won wisdom of a woman forced to grow up.