Mandolin Orange / Tides of a Teardrop
Album: Tides of a Teardrop   Collection:Country
Artist:Mandolin Orange   Added:Oct 2020
Label:Yep Roc Records  

Album Review
Tom McCarter
Reviewed 2020-10-27
Reviewed: 10-27-2020
Reviewer: Tom McCarter
Genre: Country
FCCs: none
If You Like: acoustic Cowboy Junkies, I'm With Her, Rebekkah Roland, Emmylou Harris
Review: MO returns with another stellar set of beautiful vocals anf exquisite picking
Track Review (favorites denoted by *):
*1/ Golden Embers (4:44) - guitar starts> slow sad song about loss with vocal harmonies builds to midtempo> fade
2/ The Wolves (4:06) - drums/guitar start> slow song about gratitude swings to midtempo> slow fade
**3/ Into The Sun (3:53) - guitar starts> midtempo song about love with swelling vocals> fade
*4/ Like You Used To (4:38) - guitar starts> uptempo song about patching up a relationship> quick fade
5/ Mother Deer (3:21) -guitar starts> midtempo love song done to a waltz> quick stop
*6/ Lonely All The Time (3:08) - mandolin starts hard> midtempo old time country song on love lost> quick fade
*7/ When She's Feeling Blue (5:03) - vocal starts> slow as molasses song about an odd relationship> slow fade
8/ Late September (4:21) -mandolin starts> midtempo song about love lost> quick fade
9/ Suspended In Heaven (4:14) - mandolin starts> midtempo old time country song about a mother dying> quick fade
*10/ Time We Made Time (4:56) - fiddle starts> slow love song> quick fade

Track Listing
1. Golden Embers   6. Lonely All the Time
2. The Wolves   7. When She's Feeling Blue
3. Into the Sun   8. Late September
4. Like You Used To   9. Suspended in Heaven
5. Mother Deer   10. Time We Made Time
  11. My Brother, My Keeper