Fragile Feelings Show
Recorded, we are told, at
a converted turn-of-the-century schoolhouse at his home in South Dakota during
the blizzards of 2014, founding member of Crazy Horse Billy Talbot, and friends,
have recorded a truly authentic slice of something simple and sweet here – you can
imagine the apt tags that could be applied – and it never sounds less than
genuinely felt as storytelling and performance.
Billy’s vocal is a slightly grizzled and fragile but often
beautiful stillpoint throughout all of the tracks, an emotive highlight being Wild Honey where the slowness of the
drum beat, banjo pluck, piano pulses, unbelievably plaintive fiddle and vulnerable
vocal combine with the most gorgeous chorus to present nearly six minutes of
bliss.
Other gentle gems in this vein are the Young-esque Touching – Talbot’s voice on the edge of
breaking throughout; the fiddle/violin rich with communal renditions in the
lovely When I Awake, and the
sustained soothings of Feelings Show.
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