Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Day of the Music Plus-One

I picked up both The Open Door by Evanescence and Supply and Demand by Amos Lee yesterday morning, subjecting Hillary to the latter twice during the work day, and found both to be solid.

The Open Door isn't as strong as Evanescence's major label debut, Fallen, but does feature two songs in Lithium and The Only One which easily rank in the top five they've ever done. Their sound is pretty much the same, even without co-founder and guitarist Ben Moody, though Amy Lee does devote a lot of their material to her apparently bad breakup with that dude from Seether.

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Amos Lee's second effort is outstanding. As much as I loved his debut CD, this one blows it away. Though I'm still partial to Arms of a Woman from the debut, the overall collection of songs on this one - from Freedom to Southern Girl to Sympathize - is top-notch. Lee shows considerably more musical range on this CD, diving into a couple of traditional blues songs as well.

Check here for previews.

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