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Album Details

• Artist: Linda McRae
• Album: Crying Out Loud (With Cheerful Lonesome)
• Label: Black Hen
• Year of Release: 2002
• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-04-01

Better known as “the girl from Spirit of the West�, Linda McRae is trying to make her name as much a household name as the band she once backed up. In 1998 Linda released her first solo effort called Flying Jenny with production help from renowned Canadian producer Colin Linden. With the backing band Cheerful Lonesome, Linda McRae is about to drop her sophomore album on Black Hen. Crying Out Loud is one of the greatest slices of Canadiana (in protest to the Americana moniker) I have heard in recent years. It was produced by Gurf Morlix (Lucinda Williams, Robert Earl Keen, Tom Russell) and the band she has gathered are some of the best country musicians going right now. Linda’s songs are well written and expertly delivered. She is a fine solo artist and Crying Out Loud avoids the sophomore slump that so many artists seem to have. McRae has really moved far beyond the Spirit of the West sound into something of her own.

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