Wire Waltz

The Last Town Chorus | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 6, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: HACKTONE RECORDS
• ASIN: B000MTDRBI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,665 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wire Waltz

2. You

3. Modern Love

4. Caroline

5. It's Not Over

6. Understanding

7. Boat

8. Huntsville, 1989

9. Wintering in Brooklyn

10. Foreign Land

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now I want a lap-steel guitar too!, March 27, 2007

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BrooklynDwella (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wire Waltz (Audio CD)

This album was not what I expected at all when I first listened, but I really wasn't sure what a lap-steel guitar sounded like, and I certainly didn't know what it could do! Wire Waltz is an album of contrasts and juxtapositions. Hickey sounds like she's having lots of fun, but in a fierce, controlled way. The voice tracks are often slow, minimal, and full of sad, ponderous echos, which are then delicately laid over rebellious, twanging, unpretentious guitar that at any moment can run off into a lively rock-ballad style riff. All of the songs are deliberate, and the band has a clear, defined sound that's like some combination of Patti Griffen and Mazzy Star.

It's an album for listening to (a bunch of times) when you want to feel nostalgic and older, and better for it. Favorite tracks are her David Bowie cover, 'Wire Waltz,' 'I Want You,' and 'Huntsville.'

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Love this record!, April 10, 2007

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Jeffrey S. Abelson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wire Waltz (Audio CD)

Megan Hickey will woo you with her voice and rock you with her guitar! While I love the cover of Modern Love - in which Hickey makes the song her own, It's Not Over, Caroline, Wintering In Brooklyn - are haunting and lovely and sad. This record is like fine Scotch - take your time with it - don't gulp, sip!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have, May 11, 2007

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Eric O. Clarke (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wire Waltz (Audio CD)

Megan Hickey is one of the most talented musician/poets to come along in a generation. She combines the soul of Nina Simone, the cool of June Christy, the feel for quotidian beauty of Laurie Anderson, with a skill for the lap steel guitar to rival Roy Clark. The lyrical, soothing moments leave you wonderfully unprepared for suprising innovations of tone and technique. This is an album that anyone who appreciates what music and words can do together should own and cherish.