These may or may not be newly released disks. They might not even be a good disk - just what is been in heavy rotation in my car (as usually the iPod is playing anywhere else).
At least I can say All I Intend to Be is not a bad album, but I'm not going so far to say it is a great disk either. It's no Wrecking Ball or Red Dirt Girl. Heck, it's not even a Cowgirl's Prayer.
It seems when it was released a few months back, every reviewer heaped nothing but praise on it. That's hard to live up to. And in my opinion, it doesn't.
As expected, there is nothing wrong with Harris' voice - it is still crystalline and unique as always. And though it was recorded over a three year stretch with her ex-husband as producer, it still has decent flow and consistency. A little too much consistency, where to a point there seems to be little deviation in the song style.
Maybe it's the material. But whatever it is, it is just not firing on all cylinders for me.
That's not to say it is bad - as I said earlier. It's fine, but it doesn't have too many stand-outs and that is usually what I love about Emmylou - she has plenty of them. But compared to anything else out there, it's a very good disk, but compared to some of her other works, it is just very middle of the road.
As usual, I just purchased her without listening to it, as you usually get a quality disk. Technically it is - I was just expecting so much more.
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