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The Choir
de-plumed (Independent)
Released November 2010
Andrew Greer

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Style: Acoustic folk; compare to David Wilcox, Jars of Clay, Phil Keaggy

Top tracks: "A Sentimental Song," "Enough Love," "Friend So Kind"

Having gained great praise and new fans in recent years, The Choir, aka Derri Daughtery and Steve Hindalong (City on a Hill), surveyed its twenty-five years of critically-acclaimed recordings and selected one track from each to re-introduce—all acoustic. Enhancing their history of thoughtful verses with gentle percussion, glittering indie bells and drawing cello by Sixpence None the Richer's Matt Slocum, the Grammy-nominated duo issues a quiet indie-folk set that, though a bit sleepy, remasters the songs' original magic desirably for an entirely new generation of listeners.

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Jim O'Dell

January 06, 2011 10:33pm

Good review for an excellent career-spanning CD! 2010 was a great year for The Choir. Check out "Burning Like the Midnight Sun" as well. Derri and Steve of The Choir are also in the Lost Dogs. The Lost Dogs released "Old Angel" in 2010 and it is not to be missed. It was my favorite CD of 2010. The review by John Brandon in CT does not do it justice. The last several songs are anything but throwaway, and the review sounded like someone who had gave it a quick listen without spending any time with it. The CD is epic and just about every track full of great songwriting craft. The one exception is "America's Main Street", which is a bluesy romp detailing the sites seen along Route 66. The comment about the guitar riff in "Dead End Diner" sounding like CCM, circa 1993, makes no sense to this listener, and the comment about the song lyrics makes it sound like he has only listened to the song once. The meaning of this song and the CD itself reveals more with repeated listens.