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RELIX Review of 'Room to Grow'
5/1/2007
Adrienne Young
Room to Grow
Addiebelle
With her third album, Nashville-based singer/songwriter Adrienne Young continues to successfully mine the cracks of folk, country, bluegrass and pop, coloring just outside the lines of each prescribed genre for her own free-flowing take that owes a hint of thanks to Alison Krauss. A bevy of guests â€" Phish bassist Mike Gordon, banjo-pedal steel player Gordon Stone, multi-instrumentalist Will Kimbrough, bluegrass singer Dale Ann Bradley â€" add subtle tonal shades, but by album’s end it’s Young who’s established herself as the firm leader. Whether it’s the traditional folk workout of “Sgt. Early’s Dream/Maids of Castlebar,” the eclectic runs of Joni Mitchell’s “Free Man in Paris,” or the country roots of Dusty Owen’s “Once More,” Young finds her voice without making it sound as if she’s merely taste-testing through a musical buffet line.
-Rob O’Connor
Room to Grow
Addiebelle
With her third album, Nashville-based singer/songwriter Adrienne Young continues to successfully mine the cracks of folk, country, bluegrass and pop, coloring just outside the lines of each prescribed genre for her own free-flowing take that owes a hint of thanks to Alison Krauss. A bevy of guests â€" Phish bassist Mike Gordon, banjo-pedal steel player Gordon Stone, multi-instrumentalist Will Kimbrough, bluegrass singer Dale Ann Bradley â€" add subtle tonal shades, but by album’s end it’s Young who’s established herself as the firm leader. Whether it’s the traditional folk workout of “Sgt. Early’s Dream/Maids of Castlebar,” the eclectic runs of Joni Mitchell’s “Free Man in Paris,” or the country roots of Dusty Owen’s “Once More,” Young finds her voice without making it sound as if she’s merely taste-testing through a musical buffet line.
-Rob O’Connor
