Lure the Fox by Haley Bonar

I'm keeping this one. (Don't worry I will get to ones that I am not keeping!) The CD was perfect to listen to on a gray, cold day like today. It is definitely mellow music. Someone called it folk music. I don't think I would go that far. I always think of folk music as stuff from the 50s and 60s. She is most definitely from this century. She reminds me of Emmy Lou Harris and Lucinda Williams. Most of the songs are pretty spare, just Haley and her guitar. On some of the songs you can even hear the strum of the guitar strings and the squeak of her acoustic guitar as her hand moved up and down the guitar neck. Her voice is haunting and her songs all seem really dark. It seemed appropriate for my mood today.

My favorite songs are "Hawaii" and "Us." I had to like Hawaii, the first line is "Take me down to Waikiki." From there it kind of degenerates into this song about a couple who seem to be enjoying a horrible marriage. Hmm, odd I should like it. I think I was more taken with the fact that it named my home state. I liked Us because it just stuck in my head all day. There's a line in it that just gets to me "Calling all the dirty liars, they can deal with us." I have listened to this CD for a few days now and today was my final listen before I wrote about it. I like to do that, it kind of gets me thinking about what I am going to write. After I listened to the whole CD a few times, I just listened to those two songs over and over again for the rest of the day. What I should do is just burn those two songs and then give away the CD, but never fear Mark, I won't do that, not yet at least!

I think Ross bought this CD for a couple of reasons. We saw Haley Bonar play a few times and he liked her sound. I also think he bought it because he would always read those articles in the paper about the best local CDs of the year. Hers was on there a couple of years ago and he liked to support local music so he bought it. Sometimes I think he bought CDs never hearing a song, if someone said they liked it, he was willing to give it a try (an expensive habit I learned to tolerate). No deep meaning or message there.