Last year Rissi Palmer was the first black woman to get into the country top 60 in about twenty years, with "Country Girl," which is a killer groove song, got on the country dance lists (there are such things), was one notch away from my country critics ballot and probably should have made it; interestingly, it was one of the bluesiest, blackest tracks on her album, and she tends to be best when she's blackest, "No Air" being a prime example.
Anyway, the Jordin/Chris "No Air" has a way of being precarious, there's actually plenty of air in the arrangement, so the vocal inhales and exhales and reverberates in space and has this sense of assuredly not finding its balance (if that image means anything). Rissi Palmer's version is relatively more steady and staid, a pretty version of a pretty song. Doesn't come close to the original and isn't going to compete for my top 50, but it's a nice version of a very good song.
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Last year Rissi Palmer was the first black woman to get into the country top 60 in about twenty years, with "Country Girl," which is a killer groove song, got on the country dance lists (there are such things), was one notch away from my country critics ballot and probably should have made it; interestingly, it was one of the bluesiest, blackest tracks on her album, and she tends to be best when she's blackest, "No Air" being a prime example.
Anyway, the Jordin/Chris "No Air" has a way of being precarious, there's actually plenty of air in the arrangement, so the vocal inhales and exhales and reverberates in space and has this sense of assuredly not finding its balance (if that image means anything). Rissi Palmer's version is relatively more steady and staid, a pretty version of a pretty song. Doesn't come close to the original and isn't going to compete for my top 50, but it's a nice version of a very good song.