Comments on: Album Review: Crystal Shawanda – Dawn of a New Day

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:02:16 +0000

Jim, it’s *Brett* Warren, not Brent. Just thought I’d let you know.

By: Occasional Hope

Occasional Hope — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:15:54 +0000

I’m disappointed with this one. I do really like Crystal’s voice, but the songs are mediocre and the production overdone. I like What Do I Have To Do and You Can’t Take It Back the best (the latter rather more than teh reviewer, but overall I’m underwhelmed.

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By: leeann

leeann — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:15:39 +0000

Rick, I’m with Paula on this one. I’ll try her out though when I’m not at work.

By: SamB

SamB — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:46:02 +0000

Yeah, I wasn’t thrilled with this album. I like her voice, and I absolutely loved You Can Let Go, for all the reasons stated in the review. But I just found the whole album really generic. Nothing bad, but just nothing to thrill me at all.

By: Paula

Paula — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:06:56 +0000

Rick – MySpace and/or my internet arent playing nice tonight so I cant get Shannon’s music to play at the moment. Call me an old fogie, but she’s already got one strike against her for trying to sell her boobs instead of her music. Of course, if the music career fails she can always be an underwear model. (Then again if enough guys buy her album covers it wont really matter what I think will it?) ;-)

I will at least give her a listen tomorrow sometime though. Just to be fair.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:43:39 +0000

Leeann and Paula, we can start a “Music Cheapskates Club!”. (lol)

Have you gals given Shannon Mock a listen(?) as I’d really like to hear your opinions. You gals and I have similar tastes in music (well a nice overlap at least) so I think you’d really like her. Her self-titled indie debut album is one of the best indie artist albums I’ve ever encountered. Shannon deserves some promotion because she’s a great singer and she’s really cute! (Perfect for a “girl crush”! lol)

By: PaulaW

PaulaW — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:49:55 +0000

I tend to wait til it’s been out a while and my “record club” runs a sale. I just got TROUBADOUR for $6.48 including shipping. I’m CHEAP!!

By: leeann

leeann — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:29:18 +0000

Rick, I’ve gotten the same way about buying albums. If it’s not $9.99 or less, I tend to pass on it until it is.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:05:11 +0000

Its a shame Crystal got run through the full “Nashville Major Label Music Machine” processing cycle with all of the committee songs. I would like to know what Crystal’s debut would have sounded like if she were signed instead to UMG and had received similar treatment to Ashton Shepherd. Crystal may be an artist with great musical potential, but with a formulaic commercial assembly line album like this who could know?

I was planning on buying this CD when it came out on Tuesday but it was not discounted. I’ve gotten so spoiled with major Nashville labels offering debut week prices of $ 6.99 to 9.99 that anything above that seems high. My local Target had not ordered any and at Best Buy they were priced at $ 13.99 so I took a pass. I still plan on buying one eventually though….

As for “My Roots Are Showing”, that song is on Shannon Mock’s excellent self-titled debut CD. Unfortunately that song is not on Shannon’s MySpace, but there is a YouTube music video from a performance at The Rutledge! The camcorder quality sound doesn’t really let you grasp Shannon’s vocal abilities, but its better than nothing:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8y_PSoWAxs
MySpace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=52895664