No Angel Knows

Slaid Cleaves | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 11, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Philo / Umgd
• ASIN: B0000003WI
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200,275 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Genre: Folk Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 11-FEB-1997

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30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Old Folkies -- Read This, July 16, 2000

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Bonny (Cedar Crest, NM United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Angel Knows (Audio CD)

Slaid Cleaves , according to the photos in the liners of his two CDs (this one & "Broke Down"), might have had a brilliant career as a golf pro, a magazine editor or could have been gobbled up and spit out by corporate Nashville, but noooo! Instead, he became a FOLK SINGER and I'm sure there were winter nights up in Maine when his parents -- Craiger & Jenny (really, check his website) -- must have sat at their kitchen table consoling each other, that, well, they acknowledge that their son has high intelligence, COULD be a brain surgeon or rocket scientist...but he really DOES have talent, yes?, and it seems to make him happy...

He has talent, yes, and he makes me, a listener unknown to him or his family, happy. This is the "boy" (OK, he's 35) whom we old country-folkies, old enough to be his folks, had hoped would come along to lead the next generation of musical storytellers.

Now a resident of Austin, and a professional drug-taken for a pharmacy company there, Slaid's way of writing and singing a song is a Godsend to those of us who can't quite get behind urban folk in the way we wish we could. His voice is direct, gentle and a little country, sincere and clear. The production on his CDs is wonderful. His songs are honest and descriptive. He reminds me a bit of Tom Dundee and a bit of Greg Brown but he's not like either of them. He's bright and sensitive and not particularly angst-ridden, as far as I can tell, and that's _OK_, and I recommend him very, very hightly to you.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classy guy, classy album, December 1, 1999

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Michael Fitzgerald (Needham, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Angel Knows (Audio CD)

I just recently met Slaid Cleaves, at the Blackthorne Tavern in MA, where he played for an audience of about twenty people. About one year prior to this, exactly one year actually I had gotten this very album. In due time this heartfelt work took up near constant rotation in my CD player. The songs he writes are not the happiest things, but they're very deep, and beautifully crafted. If you have a somber side, or have ever lost someone you cared about, these songs echo those feelings. Highly recommended.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stellar Songwriting, November 13, 1998

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Darron L. Spohn (Hollister, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Angel Knows (Audio CD)

I met Slaid at the Kerrville Folk Festival a few years ago. Slaid won the New Folk songwriting contest that year, and for good reason. In my 10 years working staff at the folk festival this is one of the best artists I heard. Slaid mixes country, folk and blues influences, writes beautiful tunes and heart-wrenching lyrics. Buy this CD. You won't regret it.