Holly Long - Leaving Kansas ( Audio CD ) 2008

In songs like the jazzy, Van Morrison grounded Softer Now and the shimmering piano based folk pop of Simply, Long and her whip-snap band, especially guitarists Jay Graf and Nicholas Markos, backing vocalists Pamela McNeill, Mary Jane Alm, Allison Scott, bassist Chris Bates, and drummer JT Bates create a visceral sense of a triumphant now surpassing a stubbornly, clinging then. It is the Jackson Browne-like coda to the title track that makes me want to seek out her first two full length discs—2000's City Girl and '04's Every Little Seam'. Here's hoping that Leaving Kansas will be her deserving breakthrough.

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TRACK LISTING

1 Brokedown 3:08
2 Simply 4:27
3 Trust Me 3:17
4 Homeward Bound 4:24
5 Excess 3:10
6 Cindy 3:50
7 Pain and Glory 4:55
8 Bones 5:34
9 He and I 4:47
10 Too Much Mountain 2:38
11 Sunday Redemption 4:25
12 Softer Now 4:08
13 Leaving Kansas 5:24
14 Stray Dog 3:21