Easy (Kelly Willis album)

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Easy
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Studio album by Kelly Willis
Released 2002
Genre Country
Label Rykodisc
Producer Kelly Willis and Gary Paczosa
Kelly Willis chronology
What I Deserve
(1999)		Easy
(2002)		Translated from Love
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Austin Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
BBC Music favorable [3]
Exclaim! favorable [4]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Village Voice Scissors icon black.svg [6]

Easy is the fifth album by Kelly Willis. It was released on Rykodisc in 2002. The album went to number 29 on Top Country Albums.

Kelly Willis American country music singer-songwriter

Kelly Willis is an American country music singer-songwriter, whose music has been described as alternative country and new traditionalist.

Rykodisc was an American record label. Its catalog is owned by Warner Music Group, operating as a unit of WMG's Independent Label Group and is distributed through Alternative Distribution Alliance.

Contents

Critical reception

Soon after Easy was released, NPR's Meredith Ochs said that Willis "has found her true style" on the album. [7] Richard Harrington, a music critic for the Washington Post , ranked Easy as his 9th favorite album of 2002, writing that "Willis's originals, including the hurtin' anthems "If I Left You" and "Easy (As Falling Apart)," are among her best yet." [8]

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Meredith Ochs is an American radio commentator, DJ, author, journalist and musician. She is a Gracie Award honoree for her work in radio.

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Track listing

  1. "If I Left You" (Kelly Willis) – 3:09
  2. "Easy (as Falling Apart)" (Willis) – 4:12
  3. "What Did You Think" (Bruce Robison) – 3:34
  4. "You Can't Take It with You" (Paul Kelly) – 3:03
  5. "Getting to Me" (Willis, Gary Louris) – 4:32
  6. "Don't Come the Cowboy with Me Sonny Jim!" (Kirsty MacColl) – 3:57
  7. "Wait Until Dark" (Willis, John Leventhal) – 3:41
  8. "Find Another Fool" (Marcia Ball) – 3:14
  9. "Not What I Had in Mind" (Willis) – 4:07
  10. "Reason to Believe" (Willis) – 3:17

Personnel

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Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

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Chart performance

Chart (2002) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 29
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers 17
U.S. Billboard Top Independent Albums 19

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References

  1. ↑ McCartney, Kelly. "Easy - Kelly Willis". AllMusic . Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  2. ↑ Caligiuri, Jim (2002-08-23). "Kelly Willis Reviewed". Austin Chronicle . Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  3. ↑ Jones, Chris (2002). "Review of Kelly Willis - Easy". BBC Music . Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  4. ↑ Keast, James (2002-09-01). "Kelly Willis Easy". Exclaim! .
  5. ↑ Blachill, Pat (2002-07-30). "Kelly Willis: Easy". Rolling Stone .
  6. ↑ Christgau, Robert (2002-12-31). "Don't Call It a Comeback". The Village Voice .
  7. ↑ "Kelly Willis, Learning that 'Easy' Isn't Always". NPR . 2002-10-15. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  8. ↑ Harrington, Richard (2002-12-27). "Richard Harrington's Top 10". The Washington Post . ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2018-02-11.
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