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"Cocktail and a Song" is the keeper for me.

Redesigning Women is the only song on the album I routinely skip. I haven't heard it in a long time.

I love country but I did not like the Highwomen album at all. Mostly I didn't like the singing, too mannered.

I wish they done more harmony work and less just all singing the same melody at once much of the time, but 10 of the 12 songs on the album are exactly my vibe. If they'd ditched Redesigning Women and My Only Child, I'd consider it perfect.

so is Moka doing the rollout then

Moka is keeping to their own timeline here. plz be patient as no set time to start was ever announced.

we should just wait another year to start the rollout, for a laugh.

It's the modus operandi for the film poll, and it honestly works pretty well. I can wait :)

2019 is cancelled

I will literally die if this doesn't start in the next hour

highwomen album is incredibly great, i know a lot of people here are allergic to dave cobb's production but it really works on it, rich with shadow but the guitar tones glow through it, making it feel like you've walked into a candlelit room. i've said this before but "loose change" is the best maren morris song of the year, and "if she ever leaves me" is maybe the best explicitly gay country song i've ever heard

i don't even mind "redesigning women" though the lyric is very clunky

"My Only Child" is one of the two or three best songs. Love how she hints at but doesn't directly resolve the question of why...leaves it up to the listener who may have their own experience. Hemby is the strongest piece of that puzzle, with a sharp eye for details and stories. Still listen to Puxico regularly.

The whole Highwomen project felt forced and calculated from the beginning, quite the opposite of the Annies, which have a better handle on real lives and struggles and have far more interesting things to say about them. There is nothing here with half the guts of "Best Years of My Life."

"Crowded Table" might be one of the stronger songs, but I find the four of them singing the whole thing together grating. I'm sure it translates live in some rousing acoustic closer but it doesn't work for me on the album.

hm peering into the highwomen album trying to discover the pistol annies album within seems to be missing the point to me. also i could say that no pistol annies album has a song as devastating as "cocktail and a song" but that would also be meaningless

I absolutely love the Highwomen album, including / especially the title track.

...sorry, I meant “Redesigning Women”! Why did I think it was the title track, lol

It's early morning where Moka is so give her a chance! All will be revealed in due course.

xp (probably because it’s so awesome, the entire album revolves around it for me)

I don't think anyone here is seriously angry with Moka. Take all the time you need (for real)!

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how was this range forgotten:

78-whatever: I guess this really is my shit and only my shit

hm peering into the highwomen album trying to discover the pistol annies album within seems to be missing the point to me. also i could say that no pistol annies album has a song as devastating as "cocktail and a song" but that would also be meaningless

― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, January 27, 2020 9:20 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Comparing the relative strengths and weaknesses of contemporary, popular, all-female country acts doesn't seem like a stretch to me. The Highwomen are a much more capital-s Serious group that demanded the industry take them Seriously, much like Carlile (who's very talented, but makes mostly boring music). Like many supergroups, it was a calculated idea--they'd never met or worked together (Wikipedia history below), and I hear that in the music.

"In 2016, when Shires was finishing her record, My Piece of Land, in music producer Dave Cobb's studio, Shires had an idea to create a female country supergroup in homage to the legendary Highwaymen country supergroup (consisting of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson). At the same time, the lack of representation of women artists on country music radio and at country music festivals had been publicly discussed by many, influenced by the Me Too movement and journalists like Marissa Moss. While on tour in her van, while listening to country radio, Shires kept a running list of artists and noticed that there were few women. When she called to request they play more women artists, she was directed to a Facebook page lottery system. Cobb recommended Shires call Carlile, whom she didn't know. Carlile thought it would be fun, and would be an interesting creative project."

the circumstances under which the supergroup was formed only makes the coherence of the album more impressive to me