Lori McKenna - The Balladeer
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Ten great songs
Amazing songwriting
Outstanding: "The Balladeer" and "Marie"
Lori McKenna is regarded to be one of the best female songwriters in the country music scene. On 24th July, she has been releasing The Balladeer , which she calls her most personal album. Feels like a good reason to have a listen into it.
Lori McKenna – About The Artist
Lori McKenna was born as Lorraine Giroux on 22nd December 1968 in Stoughton, MA, which is located South of Boston. The 27,000 people village is still her residence nowadays. She met her husband Gene McKenna already in third grade level and married him at the age of 19. Her first songwriting was lullabies for her five children. Already at her first open-mic, she was motivated to invest more time into music. While her first albums have not been too successful, her 2007 Unglamorous already made it to the Top of the US Heat. Overall, The Balladeer will be Lori McKenna’s tenth album.
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However, her register as a songwriter is much more impressive. The list of songs she wrote is like a “Who is Who” of the country music scene. She twice won the Grammy Award for the Best Country Song – the first one in 2016 for Girl Crush , performed by Little Big Town and a second one one year later for Humble and Kind , performed by Tim McGraw. Her songwriting brought her seven additional Grammy nominations and other award nominations and winnings since 2017.
Lori McKenna – The Balladeer – Track by Track
The ten song album lasts 37 minutes:
1. This Town Is a Woman (feat. Karen Fairchild & Kimberly Schlapman)
She has a rough side where she buries all the scars
And the freedom of a child in the midnight dark
All the crooked roads will only lead you home
This town is a woman
Lori McKenna sets a strong statement with the first track of her album. Very present song, very strong lyrics – and of course the wide sound of this women trio, alongside Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman is a real treat.
2. The Balladeer
From the musical side, the song tends to be a bit on the monotonous side. But the story behind the title track of the album is just too strong – from a small background balladeer to a great music star. One of the verses are
From her heart and let it shine like gold
Felt like angels pouring mercy on her soul
And the weight of the world, she let it go
And she sang for the first time with her head held high and so much pride
Impressive and lovely.
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3. Marie
The storytelling of McKenna is again outstanding. Marie is more melodic than the track before, the story is even more intense: Marie is Lori’s elder sister. The song majorly describes the time when their mother died. Cannot say more. I am just deeply impressed.
4. The Dream
I am really happy that after the two tracks, which deeply touched me, there is a bit of an easier topic. I had a dream last night that the two of you met . Again, McKenna describes the scenery in a lovely musical detail. Lovely melody in the background – but finally her songs are about her voice and her lyrics.
5. Uphill
When the road under your feet is dark and feels wrong
And you find yourself lost and all your confidence is gone
And the stars over your head through the clouds won’t be revealed
I’ll walk with you, even if it’s uphill
A musical love letter in extraordinary quality. When an artist is showing in that constant way that she is so great in songwriting, I more and more hate myself for not being better in English and finding more and more new words. Sorry for repeating myself
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6. Good Fight
After all these quiet and somehow even melancholic tracks, the very melodic Good Fight feels even more powerful and pleasant than it actually is. The song is one of the track released before the album – and already feels like a good old friend to me. The ones with a deep relationship.
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7. Stuck in High School
With Stuck in High School , the album stays melodic. An autobiographic song about high school motivation problems.
8. When You’re My Age (feat. Hillary Lindsey & Liz Rose)
When You’re My Age is the longest song of the album – the total duration is 5:11 minutes. After singing about her sister and the death of her father, she is now turning towards her five children. A lovely mother’s promise to them.
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9. Two Birds
Two Birds is a lovely allegory about love. The atmosphere of the song is going back to the beginning of the album a bit, but it is a lovely listen.
10. ‘Till You’re Grown
You’ll understand when you’re older
And get out there on your own
How time really flies, it ain’t fair
You don’t see it till you’re grown
Another song which is clearly dedicated to McKenna’s children, gives a lovely finish of the album. The song is simply out that you perceive things differently when you are kid compared to your adult perspective. Lovely.
Lori McKenna – The Balladeer – Spotify
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Lori McKenna – The Balladeer – My View
No doubt about that The Balladeer is amazing musical quality. While reviewing the first songs I even felt that I will assign a full score review rating after I did that already to Taylor Swift’s folklore the same weekend. The second half of McKenna’s album is just a little bit weaker than the outstanding beginning. Thus, the album absolutely deserves an outstanding rating – but I still leave a little bit of potential for the next time. You have to listen to The Balladeer.
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The first entry of a trip report is typically full of stories about airports, airlines and flying. My trip to ...
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After I did my very first trip report on Flyctory.com about following Weird Al Yankovic on his "Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised ...
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When I select the places I want to visit in a city for flyctory.com, there are typically two kinds sights: ...
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After I dealt with visiting the Graceland Mansion in a separate posting, the second part of my review of Graceland ...
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Even if Elvis was born in Tupelo and there are so many other great musicians (which you can for example ...
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The capital area of Washington D.C. is full of federal agencies and services. Thus, there are also some very specific ...
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Just after I left Chattanooga Airport on Day 3 of my CMA Fest Trip, I went to the Lookout Mountain ...
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Though I finally did not manage to touch down there, flying from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) was definitely ...
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Nashville is the dominating super-city of music in Tennessee, despite there is so much musical history in Memphis as well ...
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After I made my trip to Nashville, my stay during the CMA Fest 2019 was the Hampton Inn Nashville-Airport. I ...
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Even more than 80 years after Elvis Presley's birth, Tupelo in Mississippi is still dominated by memories of its most ...
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In order to be able to visit Graceland and many other attractions in Memphis on my trip to CMA Fest ...
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After my first Chattanooga experience was already part of my trip following the Weird Al Yankovic Tour 2018, I made ...
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After flying from Washington to Chattanooga, my first night on my trip to Nashville in 2019 was in Tupelo Mississippi ...
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If you drive the US-61 between Tunica, Mississippi, and Memphis, you just cannot miss the iconic wooden building called Gateway To ...
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If you want to see Singapore from above, you likely take the Singapore Flyer. London Eye has been an icon ...
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The final day of my trip report to Nashville. The tour is coming to an end, the next days, I ...
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After driving quite a bunch of miles the two days before, 4th June was planned to be a sightseeing day ...
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3rd June 2019 on my trip to Nashville was "Elvis Presley Day". Waking up less than a mile away from ...
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The first stage of my trip to Nashville in 2019 brought me to Washington. As I had a flight connection ...
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While most of the trip to Nashville was accompanied by magical places of music history, the first highlights of the ...
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Just around all the National Historic sites in Philadelphia, there is a load of additional museums, which are more or ...
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The second day on my trip to Nashville was a comparably easy one: waking up in Washington D.C., sleeping in ...
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Naturally, Day 1 of my trip to Nashville lead me to the airport. The first stage of my trip was ...
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Already months ahead, I was looking forward to visiting the CMA Fest in Nashville. Not just that I fell in ...
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Founding Father of the United States, printer, author, inventor, scientist, many more... It is likely much easier to list the ...
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During my February 2019 visit to Philadelphia featuring the NHL Stadium Series match and my round trip with Southern Airways ...
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Flying Southern Airways Express was not my only debut aviation experience on route to Philadelphia for the NHL Stadium Series ...
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Cooking facilities are much more popular in North American hotels than in European ones. Even quite lousy motel rooms typically ...
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Travelling to the NHL Stadium Series match of the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Philadelphia Flyers in late February 2019, I ...
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The Pittsburgh Penguins versus the Philadelphia Flyers - the Keystone State Rivalry was taken to its second stage in February ...
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Florida is full of amazing water attractions and aquariums. Installing a Sea Life in the limited space of the ICON ...
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Just some three years after the complex opened in 2015, the former "I-Drive 360" district next to Orlando International Drive ...
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In 2018, the former Coca Cola Orlando Eye ferris wheel rebranded to ICON Orlando as part of the rebranding of ...
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I have to admit, I am not the biggest fan of wax museums. I stick with Lonely Planet's comment on ...
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Flyctory.com is neither a food-blog nor an advertisement platform for fast food. However, visiting the McDonald's at International Drive, Orlando, ...
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The Tampa Bay area is full of top attractions for animal lovers. After we visited Busch Gardens, we decided to ...
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As we were aiming to visit Busch Gardens on our December 2018 trip, my wife and I chose the Hampton ...
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You want to spent a day with family or friends and cannot decide whether you want to go for the ...
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Another six months have passed - the first full half year of Flyctory.com's existance. After I did the Very Important ...
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Visiting Orlando, I have to admit that I prefer Universal Studios parks in Florida much more to Disney ones. One ...
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When you think about a great Christmas time in one of the Orlando theme parks, you likely first think about ...
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Can you imagine what the highest-rated attraction in Germany, according to Tripadvisor, is? Cologne Cathedral? Wrong! Neuschwanstein Castle! No! And ...
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After I had to book another hotel right across the street for the first night to get a low airfare, ...
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British Airways flight BA 1 has always been on my bucket list. The very special connection between London and New ...
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It is Atlanta's finest attraction, regarding Tripadvisor. Just across the park from "World of Coca Cola", Georgia Aquarium is home ...
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On my Weird Al Yankovic Tour trip, I also visited some of the major Atlanta sights. The "World of Coca ...
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There have been so many discussions about Rio 2016. Not just about whether the country itself is able to stand ...
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16th April, time to leave Atlanta again. At least, there has been plenty of time before to do some sightseeing ...
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Day 4, back to Atlanta, heading to where the trip started... and to my final concert of this trip. The ...
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Saturday, 14th April, has not been regarded as the most thrilling day of this trip anyway. Travelling from the very ...
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So long awaited... Time for the first concert of my trip to the Weird Al Tour 2018! Tried to start ...
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Day 1 of the trip to Weird Al Yankovic. It has been already some 14 years since I saw this ...
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My first flyctory.com Trip Report leads me to Georgia and Tennessee. Starting from Cologne airport, my key aim of that ...
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