Her follow-up to 2013’s sublime Pushin’ Against A Stone finds Valerie June expanding her unique blend of blues, soul and mountain music to create a distinctive hybrid in which past and future coalesce with gentle power.
Valerie June follows-up a highly regarded debut with a stronger, tighter set of songs around the theme of time and its passing. The Order of Time is unique and presents a confident and dynamic songwriter and performer with a rich background in stylistic and regional influences.
With The Order of Time, she exudes the languid pace of the South with poetic songs and spacy arrangements that breeze out through the screen door.
More ornate and richly produced than any of her previous recordings, The Order Of Time fully establishes June as a proper auteur who has long transcended any limitations as a quaint revivalist.
On her second, formal album, the lady from Memphis makes her neo-appalachian blues according to the traditional way, without forgetting to add some modern touches of her own that save them from becoming fossils.
A younger version of me would never believe that 24 year old Caleb would listen to a southern bluesy soul album, but here we are. June’s twang is oddly infectious on an album that is both gentle and fun.
A younger version of me would never believe that 24 year old Caleb would listen to a southern bluesy soul album, but here we are. June’s twang is oddly infectious on an album that is both gentle and fun.
On her second, formal album, the lady from Memphis makes her neo-appalachian blues according to the traditional way, without forgetting to add some modern touches of her own that save them from becoming fossils.
1 | Long Lonely Road 3:56 | 78 |
2 | Love You Once Made 3:37 | 85 |
3 | Shakedown 2:46 | 40 |
4 | If And 3:30 | 50 |
5 | Man Done Wrong 3:06 | 55 |
6 | The Front Door 4:14 | 100 |
7 | Astral Plane 3:38 | 65 |
8 | Just in Time 3:50 | 71 |
9 | With You 2:42 | 55 |
10 | Slip Slide on By 4:04 | 60 |
11 | Two Hearts 3:53 | 40 |
12 | Got Soul 4:12 | 27 |
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