Simple Path

Irene Kelley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 27, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Madacy 2 Label Group
• ASIN: B00005ALHV
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #345,169 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. A Little Bit Bluer Than That

2. O Mexico

3. Not So Different After All

4. Scorns Of Time

5. It Wasn't Me

6. Dancin' Shoes

7. Pilgrim In The Rain

8. Constant State Of Grace

9. Jealousy

10. One Fine Day

11. Never Lookin' Back

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Too Good for Radio, March 23, 2001

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John Thornton (Kent, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Simple Path (Audio CD)

This is the real deal! I suspect that the sound of this CD is a little too tinged with Bluegrass to make it big on country radio. That is too bad. Buy it and experience something others may miss!!

Irene Kelley is a co-writer on all of the songs, and you can tell they come from her soul not just her diaphram. The sound is clean and simple. It brings to my mind simple crystal wine glasss.

I have owned it about a week and I can't stop playing it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific Album!, April 27, 2001

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Katherine R. (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Simple Path (Audio CD)

This album is traditional, but at the same time very original. Good writing, well-played. A fresh sound. Her voice reminds me a bit of Kelly Willis. The first song, "A Little Bluer Than That" is a wonderful country heart-break song. "Tonight if you turn your radio on, you might hear a sad, sad song. About someone who lost everything they had. It may sound like me, but I'm a little bluer than that." Great bluegrass players on the CD: Claire Lynch, Viktor Krauss, and Aubrey Haynie among them. If you're a fan of real country music, you'll like this one.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A strong new voice on the country music scene, November 26, 2002

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simple Path (Audio CD)

Songwriter Irene Kelley struck gold when her song, "A Little Bluer Than That," was recorded by Top 40 hard-country hero Alan Jackson, on his album "Drive." That song, which opens this album as well, is a welcome throwback to the heartfelt simplicity of 'Fifties-style country heartsongs -- a good lyrical premise, a strong, simple, irresistible melody and nice, clean pickin' to back it up. She has some roots set down in the bluegrass scene as well; picker ssuch as Aubrie Haynie and Viktor Krauss pitch in, and there are also a couple of songs co-written with Claire Lynch, one of the best trad-grassers around. Kelley's voice and her musical choices bring to mind alt.country female icons such as Iris DeMent, Nanci Griffith and Kelly Willis, although I'd hazard to guess that Kelley sees herself working more in a commercial, Top 40 vein, more as a composer than as a headliner act. Other songs on this album are more self-consciously and ostentatiously crafted, more in line with the overdoing-things style that's all the rage in Nashville; the other standout track is "Pilgrim In The Rain," a bouncy, anthemic upbeat number co-written with Kim Richey. I wouldn't say that the whole album bowled me over the same way "Bluer Than That" does, but she's certainly a strong performer and a songsmith to be reckoned with... Keep your eyes on this gal!