You never know what your going to get with Casey Chambers, but I'm really enjoying this, some great songs and very good acoustic guitar, uke playing.
Another great album from Joan Baez. You'd never know she was 77 from the singing, but the songs come from a voice aged with wisdom and retrospection.
Casey's songs come from someone in the prime of her life, her kids are growing up, she's in a safe place musically, lifes good, although she can sing a blues song with conviction.
Joans seen it all, and is at a stage of life when some things get a bit tiresome , how many times do we have to watch the same old shit - gun control in America , friends dying, being the last leaf on a tree.
Both good albums and recommended - good sound too.
One interesting thing- Casey doesn't have a great high voice, she gets a bit screechy at the higher notes, I think she had some problems with her voice some time back.
One way to soften this is to double track- the producer will put another identical vocal on top of the original, so you get a choir effect that sounds a bit more harmonic and agreeable.
Its very common and just about mandatory for those not blessed with a perfect voice.
You'll find double tracking, or multi tracking on just about every album you own, but does your preamp enable you to discriminate it immediately ?
Its a sign of a good preamp with excellent definition - you should be able to hear two distinct, separate voices laid on top of each other.
The better the preamp, the better the distinction and the better the harmony will sound.
