| Wrapped in Sky | ||||
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| Released | 1995 | |||
| Genre | Rock, folk rock | |||
| Label | DGC [1] | |||
| Producer | John Porter | |||
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Wrapped in Sky is an album by the American band Drivin N Cryin, released in 1995. [2] [3] The album marked a return to the band's earlier, folkier sound. [4]
The band supported the album by touring with Moonpools & Caterpillars. [5]
The album was produced by John Porter. [6] Porter was not the band's first choice, but several "bigger name" producers had declined the band's invitation. [7]
Peter Buck played dulcimer and mandolin on the album's opening tracks. [8] It was recorded without guitar player Buren Fowler, who had quit the band in 1994. [9]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [10] |
| Calgary Herald | [11] |
| Chicago Tribune | [4] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [12] |
| Los Angeles Times | [13] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [6] |
No Depression wrote that "the songs run toward character sketches, conveyed at ballad tempo with careful restraint." [14] Trouser Press determined that Wrapped in Sky captures the band's "broad stylistic ambitions better than on any other album," writing that "adjunct keyboardist Joey Huffman's textures are a valuable new contribution." [15] The Calgary Herald concluded that the album "drifts by, pleasant but its purpose, its passion, its very drive somehow lost along the way." [11] The Post and Courier labeled it "an album that often seems a dippy Dylanesque joke." [16]
The Washington Post thought that, "though the songs are well-crafted and the sound is well realized ... the overall effect is not exactly organic." [17] The Los Angeles Times stated that it "brims with music that's blissfully melodic (never cloying) and often quite fiery." [13] The Sun-Sentinel conceded that, while singer Kevin Kinney "doesn't have one of the best voices around, he certainly has one of the most earnest." [18] The Record lamented that "Kinney's wet-noodle vocals and high-falutin' lyrics tend to drag down his band's musical charms." [19]
AllMusic called Wrapped in Sky "the most overlooked and underrated of the Southern rock band's albums," writing that "Saving Grace" "is an untraditional gem of a power ballad." [10]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Indian Song" | |
| 2. | "Telling Stories" | |
| 3. | "Leader the Follow" | |
| 4. | "Saving Grace" | |
| 5. | "Underground Umbrella" | |
| 6. | "Right Side of Town" | |
| 7. | "Señorita Louise" | |
| 8. | "Pura Vida" | |
| 9. | "Light" | |
| 10. | "Silence of Me" | |
| 11. | "Wrapped in Sky" |
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