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The term Americana can get used far too often these days but it's what Texas Never Whispers reminds me most of still. That and I can hear a lot of The Wallflowers in here and I've never been a big fan of Jakob Dylan and company but Texas Never Whispers just somehow makes it work for them.
Like something off of the "Empire Records" soundtrack combined with a honky tonk there are elements of Counting Crows in these songs as well as Phantom Planet and The Hold Steady. The singer can really belt out these melodic songs about being poor and making music. One of my favorite lines on this entire album is about "the words we never figured out, we still sung along" as it does hit home for me.
I think there are a lot of songs out there that I've heard growing up from Nirvana to Pearl Jam to Smashing Pumpkins even and I might not have known the exact lyrics to the songs so I'd just sing it my way- something I still do to this day- and I'm not sure why. I remember only really looking up lyrics to specific Nirvana songs maybe three or four years ago and thinking, "Is that what he said?"
There is a sort of mystery in that though-- making up the lyrics yourself as opposed to singing the correct ones. When you learn the actual lyrics it's like the reveal of a magic trick or something, right? It has that peaking behind the curtain effect which sometimes can make things seem less fun.
Texas Never Whispers is actually from Texas and they have that sound that you would expect to find from such a great state when you think of any sort of rock n roll or country artist such as Robert Ellis. They don't lean as close to the country and western side of things as most artists from Texas do though, and that's okay by me, and they're not really folk either so I'm hesitant to call them Americana so... is there a genre yet for Texacana? That would be where I put them.
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