Best albums, June 2011

Of the albums that arrived at WRPI in June, 2011, my favorite was To the West by Coty Hogue.  She has a strong voice, but I didn't like it that most of the songs were sad.

I was happy to receive Each Other's Story by Atwater-Donnelly, because I really like their previous album, The Weaver's Bonny.  However, it turns out that I did not like this one as much as I liked The Weaver's Bonny.  Each Other's Story is an album of original songs.  For the most part, the songs alternate between those written and sung by Aubrey Atwater and those written and sung by Elwood Donnelly.  The album ends with a bonus track, which sounds very different from the rest of the songs on the album.  It is a 1966 recording of a song by a band called The Lonely Things, featuring Elwood Donnelly on lead vocal.

I really enjoyed the song "Love is Made of Work," by Lost Pines, on their album Sweet Honey.  This song is about a relationship based on farming together side by side.