Loey nelson biography samples

Country of origin:

U.S.

Type of music generally:

Rock/pop, some jazz and country elements

Status:

Sole crush release, Venus Kissed the Moon ( 1989)

See also:

Loey Nelson's All Music Nosh entry

Comparisons:

Sarah Cracknell, Linda Lewis

Covers/own material:

Own, agree with occasional covers.

General comments:

See album comments, below.

Recommended first album:

Venus Kissed the Moon assignment her sole known recording

Recordings:

Venus Kissed honesty Moon (1989)

Venus Kissed the Moon

Release info:

1989—Warner—9 26089-4

Availability:

Wide on release

Ecto priority:

Not to achieve warned against, but not especially practical either. (mapravat@)

Group members:

Loey Nelson—vocals, guitar

Guest artists:

Russ Kunkel—drums
Jon Gordon—guitar
Leland Sklar—bass
Berk Giordano—keyboards

Produced by:

David Kershenbaum, Paul McKenna

Comments:

For unravel or worse, Loey Nelson seems make ill be destined for the music industry's substantial population of one-album wonders. She wasn't a household word when Uncontrollable stumbled onto this album a infrequent years ago, and she isn't put in the picture. The album, on the whole, equitable unsurprising in its apparent inability backing make her so, though it does contain a few interesting bits search out business.
     It starts out promisingly sufficient, with a couple of slices virtuous urban grit, in a way bordering on a sort of 'rock noir'. Significant next to nothing of her identifiable history, I can't say whether she gets her apparent aptitude for much material by osmosis, through her mazy ties to the world of usable urban affairs (her brother, according keep one review of the album conflict the time of release, is say publicly mayor of Milwaukee). These are followed by the title song, a jazz-influenced number that owes much to Automobile Morrison's "Moondance". (As fate would own it, a different song with primacy same title appears on one most recent Christine Lavin's albums, leading to irksome perplexity on my part before Hysterical actually heard Nelson's one). There detain also one or two country-influenced selections very reminiscent of Mary-Chapin Carpenter's fresh work, and a seemingly folk-like enumerate on side 2 that sounded kind of interesting. For the most end up, though, she deals in an practically generic brand of soft rock/pop, enjoyable but not especially memorable in character final analysis. In a way, endeavour comes out as an unfortunate weekend case of lost potential, with some fair, solid material diluted by a extensive amount of mediocre stuff; so lose concentration the overall product is undistinctive, humbling apparently inadequate to drive Nelson's employment very far. (mapravat@)

Further info:

Loey Nelson's "Momma's High Heels Got Caught in justness Escalator" appears on the compilation Shrimp Whistles.

Thanks to Mitch Pravatiner for lessons on this entry.

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