JCHAlbum Of The Month: Catherine Britt's
January 18th 2008 12:13
So the question for a lot of you is, who is Catherine Britt?
Catherine Britt is an Australian country singer/songwriter who has been based in Nashville since 2004 until recently making the move back to Australia in 2007. Britt has toured and performed with Brooks & Dunn and Alan Jackson, and has also released three records including another personal favorite of mine, “Too Far Gone” (2006). After winning the admiration of Elton John in 2002, Catherine was flown to Nashville where she performed on the Grand Ole Opry and signed with RCA Nashville…quite an accomplishment for the then nineteen year old.
While her first two albums were very traditional, “Little Wildflower” is definitely a sign of personal growth and maturity. Britt has embraced her inner Loretta Lynn, co-writing nine of the twelve tracks on the album. Grammy Award nominated Brett Beavers (of Dierks Bentley fame) produced the record, helping Catherine to emerge from the more traditional sound that she had been embracing for past two records. The album is infused with country pop, making for a much more user friendly mainstream record…which is not a bad thing.
If anything, “Little Wildflower” is honest. The now twenty three year old Britt touches on alcoholic regret in the Keith Urban accompanied “What I Did Last Night”, restlessness in “That Ain’t Me” and expressing the all too common desire of wanting someone else in “If Only He Were You”.
I always tell people that country is essentially about story telling. For me, it was the pain of “Drive-In Movie” that forced me to fall in love this album. As a dramatic twenty year old with a love of Patsy Cline and unhealthily high expectations of love, this track drew me into pain and passion of a mislaid love. Britt paints the picture beautifully, singing “And out across the rugged hills/The dust blows and the wind wails/Sunbleached skulls and empty shells/Broken men with tales to tell/And I would be/One of them”.
I think Britt says it all, "It's my whole life. I listen to music, I read biographies, I read country music history. Most of the time, I just don't pay much attention to the outside world.”
I urge you to buy this record…not only to support an amazing Australian country artist, but to experience the evolution of a young singer/songwriter.
Download and Watch: Drive-In Movie
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