KAMA LINDEN – Southern Comfort – CD review

KAMA LINDEN
Southern Comfort

We’ve been fans of Ms Linden for quite some time now, having given “Better Late Than Never” and “Uninhibited” the thumbs aloft.  We even got a bit hippyish and said it was “pointed, intelligent, literate pop / rock songs, searching for truth in life and love”.  Which doesn’t sound like a sentence bandied around by me, but it’s all true.

This time around, though, Ms Linden has done gone and went country.  Or, in her own words, “The songs you will hear on “Southern Comfort” were inspired by all of my travels, particularly to Nashville, and the Jersey Shore. All of these songs were written on, or about “the road”…The wonderful people I have met when traveling near and far made me feel at home when I was far away from home.”  Like I said, done gone country.

But don’t go thinking it’s turned all Patsy Cline.  No, it’s modern country with folky tinges.  Which isn’t a million miles from went before, but with added slide guitar.  Which is, officially, A Good Thing.  You wouldn’t know it from the opening track, ‘Make Room For Mama’, but once the title track kicks in, it’s a much more comfortable place for fans of country.

There are some excellent songs on offer here, with album highlight ‘Lonely With You (I’d Rather Be Lonely)’, ‘Past Tense Man’ and the twangtatic ‘She’s So’ and ‘Jersey Girl’ my favourites as of this minute.  It’s a well produced and well played record that her old fans should take to, regardless of the stylistic switch, and one that should bring in some new ones alomg the road.

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