Leigh Nash
Popular Music Reaches New Levels Of Disposability!
Music in 2015 is a constant move forward: when you are listening to 1500 albums a year you are always on the move and music is always in your rearview mirror. A blessing and a curse when you spend six months on an album and it is gone in a week
Be Here Now: New Album Releases Reviewed 9-18-15 – 9-24-15
This Sixpence None The Richer singer releases an album of irreproachable country songs, Leigh’s voice has just enough undertow to suggest depth without solemnity, her ballads are subtle enough to draw you in and her singing is clear, clean and unadorned enough to gain your trust. Try “Cruel Heart” or “Chicago” or “”Tell Me Now Tennessee” -try anything, she co-wrote them all. Leigh name checks Dottie West but she reminds me of mid-period Iris DeMent without sounding like her at all – Album Of The Week – A