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Audio CD (August 26, 2003)
Original Release Date: August 26, 2003
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Hightone Records
ASIN: B0000AN4F9
In-Print Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #27,494 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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2. Bad Luck Day Baby 3:05 $0.89

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4. Bleak St 3:33 $0.89

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7. Cold Hungry Blues 3:02 $0.89

8. Backstairs Down 3:18 $0.89

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10. Wheels Are Taking Me Away 4:12 $0.89

11. What Sad Old Song? 6:00 $0.89

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The Be Good Tanyas broke out of Vancouver with a style that mixed mountain music with just a hint of urban funk. Po' Girl, an offshoot project with BGT singer-guitarist-banjo picker Trish Klein and another Vancouver folkie, Allison Russell, mines a similar vein of back-porch, acoustic intimacy, but moves the music from the hills and hollers of Appalachia to the moss-drenched balconies of Nawlins. Russell's singing evidences a slurred, breathy quality similar to Klein's BGT partners Frazey Ford and Samantha Parton--the Vancouver sound seems to involve a sort of mumbled, intermittently intelligible delivery that is no less evocative for being difficult to decipher. On "Bad Luck Day Baby" Russell breaks it up with bluesy belting that recalls a more energetic Norah Jones. "Bleak St." shows that, like the Tanyas, Po' Girl can groove without getting loud, and they write songs that rest comfortably alongside classic tunes like Lester Brown's "Abilene." They may even be great songs: it would be easier to tell if you could understand more of the words. Still, BGT fans won't be disappointed, nor will anyone interested in what folk might sound like in the future. --Michael Ross

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While growing from the same roots as the Be Good Tanyas and retaining similarities, Po' Girl has its own distinctive identity as a group, which comes through on the CD. Their self-titled debut features 12 originals. Hightone. 2003.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Po' Girl--Truly Alternative Music, August 2, 2005

By	Dana Rothschild (Georgia) - See all my reviews

In the wasteland that is crappy mainstream music, Po' Girl is a wonderful oasis. I came to Po' Girl for Trish Klein (of The Be Good Tanyas) and I stayed for Allison Russell. If you want heartless lyrics and over-produced pop music, then don't buy this album. However, if you seek a creative mixture of folk, jazz, bluegrass, and blues, then this first album by Po' Girl is for you.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Simple Wonder, July 31, 2004

By	Woodtick Rick (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

An uncomplicated work of art. To say this CD is lovely would understate the way it will ooze in and make you feel fine. Absence of too much lead guitar is a pleasure. Voice and accoustic instruments meld togther in a way that relaxes and mesmerizes that moment. A slow, elegant flavor of the deep South runs through the tracks.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Taking it to the Limit, September 28, 2003

By	Dainon J. Moody "gr8dane74" (Salt Lake City, Utah United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Give Po'Girl a listen and before you've reached the middle of "Gone in Pawn (Shake Sugaree)", you realize you know this voice. Allison Russell, the half who is the triple threat combo of clarinet, pennywhistle and vocals, is a Natalie Merchant, an Alana Davis-even a smoky Norah Jones-all rolled into one lavish package. She's some kind of human Swiss Army knife of her own design for sure, wearing influences so thick in her nuances alone, she'll hardly get the appropriate names out her mouth before you end up hearing them yourself. Combine her talents with the Be Good Tanyas' Trish Klein (vocals, geet, banjo, harp) and collectively they're some kind of new folkie Indigo Girls persuasion. While the latter girl duo may write the songs you can sing warming yourself by the mountain campfire, Po'Girl goes good with the laziness most often associated with the sentimentality of summer. And, when not standing up to their fullest heights with their Street Poet hats atop their heads, they're the ones slouching on the sidewalk just outside the best coffee shop in town, providing a soundtrack for the sipping urban beatniks.

For inst, they sound much too lovely to make a believable case of the battered wife in "What Sad Old Song?", but when they're singing about repeatedly jumping right out of their skin ("Malaise Days"), it seems rather appropriate. Right down to the part of the tune where they're expressing all kinds of slacker angst on seeing a bad band, referring to them as "imitation cowpokes" out of Nashville. Po'Girl end up playing the angry card, but we know they don't really care all that much. And we like that they don't care. We hate the band they hate, too, but we're too distracted by the relaxed vibe they've sustained to allow us out of the smiling happy stupor for very long.

And if rhythm & blues is able to attach the neo-soul genre to it, however loosely, country & western should, at the very least, have a name for the branch of gutsier, more honest country-pop hybrid that's being so skillfully created. Uncle Tupelo got the jumpstart on creating alt.country, sure, but they had the appropriate blend of twang and rawk to be considered the pioneers of the term. What we need is a brand of neo-western to call our own. Now, to pigeonhole Po'Girl into country would be more than a little absurd; they flirt with the folk, gospel, blues and old-time jazz variety of things, just because they can. And, to take it further, a band covering Tom Waits' "Ice Cream Man" midway through one of its own tunes, while appealing to the hipsters in the room, may not allow it to pass the neo-western grade.

But if qualifications rest around stripping themselves of the glam so often associated with the 800 lb. gorilla of, say, Dolly Parton in a new wig and enough Revlon to make Tammy Faye jealous, they might consider themselves forerunners. Their banjo sounds quite perfect when the picking begins in on "Shameless" (as does, let's be honest, the entire song-thanks to Jesse Zubot and Jesse's fiddle). And trying their damnedest to make the jumble of sad songs reflect the fact that, on an especially bad day, they might actually reflect their melancholy prose should they try really, really hard, they're nearly there. Bonus points for tackling the hidden standard "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" and for even pulling it off fairly well.

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5.0 out of 5 stars PLEASE BUY THIS CD---FABULOUSOOOOOO!!!
The sounds on this self-titled CD (Po'Girl) by the Vancouver duo conjure up images of steamy, sexy, hot vacation filled interludes surrounded with daiquiris and hammocks. Read more

Published 22 months ago by Sam

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it!
This is not your run-of-the mill, mass market junk. This is real music made by real musicians. The sound is so old but so new. Read more

Published on April 18, 2007 by J. O. Foster

5.0 out of 5 stars Standalone
As a rubbish Brit with no knowledge of the Be Good Tanyas, I heard one song of Po' Girl's second album at a friend's house and was hooked. Read more

Published on April 29, 2006 by Mr. S. Neale

4.0 out of 5 stars New favorite
If you are a be good tonyas fan, you will not be disappointed with this one. First listen, I was worried I might get sick of listening through the album as most of the songs are... Read more

Published on April 4, 2006 by J. B. Mack

5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely amazing
this is becoming part of my most listened to CDs. It takes alot to break into my rotation and every song is a keeper!! Read more

Published on October 24, 2005 by R. Strell

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully Melodic Urban/Country/Folk
Sorta Nora Jones in a country-folk-blues kinda way--breathy, sexy, whiskey-and-lemonade-on-the-porch music. Get it, it's lovely. Read more

Published on March 23, 2004 by Rachael Rice

5.0 out of 5 stars great stuff
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Published on December 29, 2003 by N. Odiseos

2.0 out of 5 stars Could have been great
I loved Blue Horse, by the Be Good Tanyas, so I was very interested in this CD. Upon the second or third listening, I couldn't help but wish that Frazey Ford had done the vocals... Read more

Published on September 19, 2003 by Kate Smart

5.0 out of 5 stars The spirit said, "Sing!"
Great bluesey, folky album. Mostly acoustic, reminders of Keb Mo, Eric Bibb, a little Indigo Girls harmony, touch of the Beatles in one of the songs. Read more

Published on September 5, 2003 by dvondy

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