Chris Hickey Discography of CDs

Chris Hickey CD discography I can't quite call Hickey underrated, since he's spent so little time even near the spotlight. Two major label one shots and two solo albums in the '80s aren't quite enough to establish a presence. But I think he is one of the best singer-songwriters I have ever heard. He has a voice that commands attention - not because of some incredible range, but because his voice has a plaintive intensity. ...

Chris Hickey CD discography CIVILIANS, Joe Henry's second album for Anti- and tenth overall, sees him mastering the recipe he has tangled with throughout his impressive career: a pan-American vision that dabbles with almost every early-20th-century genre from torch songs to folk; from ragtime to the blues. He brings spacious, but effecting arrangements and an incisive, dry wit to a song cycle that finds the common links between Brian Wilson and Nick Cave. The album ...

Chris Hickey albums Start with a touch of Peter Himmelman, add a dash of Aimee Mann, and a bit of the Wallflowers, and you'll come close to what Uma sounds like. You see, the various band members and guest musicians on Fare Well have played with those folks and more, all the while honing their own craft, defining their own style. What these artists all have in common is an approach to songwriting that ...

Chris Hickey music CDs Free-for-All (1992) is the album that proved to skeptics that Michael Penn was neither a one-hit wonder nor an artistic lightweight trading on his famous surname. It's a darker, less immediately engaging album than March, but it's also a far more consistent album than that wildly uneven debut. From the ominous opener, "Long Way Down (Look What the Cat Drug In)," through to the seething closer, "Now We're Even," this ...