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Personnel: Maria McKee (guitar); Jerry Andrews (guitar); Jim Akin (bass instrument); Tom Dunne (drums).
LATE December is an interesting and successful artistic departure for prolific singer-songwriter Maria McKee. This is her first solo album to approach the big, bombastic sound of her two mid-1980s albums with Lone Justice. Indeed, McKee finally gets around to recording "A Good Heart," a Lone Justice-era song that she wrote for former Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey's debut solo album but never performed herself.
The album is stylistically varied, from the cool R&B sophistication of the title track to the dramatic, Kurt Weill-like martial rhythm of "Destine" to the spirited art rock of "Scene of the Affair," which comes off as an improbable but effective fusion of COUNTRY LIFE-vintage Roxy Music and early Bruce Springsteen. Although it's entirely unlike anything Maria McKee has ever recorded as a solo artist, LATE December is one of her most appealing albums.
Q - p.127
3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he epic gospel of 'No Other Way To Love You', the irresistible 'Too Many Heroes' and the joyously unhinged 'One Eye On The Sky' highlight a sizzling set."Dirty Linen - p.71
"McKee's voice has deepened since her Lone Justice days, it has lost none of its power, and she tears into the material with an operatic zeal."No Depression - p.100
"McKee puts it over with the familiar assurance of a '70s soul oldie....LATE December marks not an ending, but another thrilling twist in McKee's mercurial career."Mojo (Publisher) - p.102
4 stars out of 5 -- "Strings, brass, catchy scalar iffs and a phalanx of layered, wholly committed Marias further enliven an invigorating work..."|
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