Cross the Danger Line

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Vocal comparisons to Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton & Alison Krauss - & songwriting comparisons to Loretta Lynn, Nanci Griffith & Harry Chapin - no wonder Rounder Records signed Kimberly M'Carver with only a homemade cassette tape of her songs. Her Rounder Records (Philo) releases, Breathe the Moonlight & Inherited Road, included Jerry Douglas Stuart Duncan & Jeff White, and drew great reviews, nominations (Best Independent Record) & charted on the Americana chart. Her third CD (self produced with Scott Neubert) Cross the Danger Line, contains musicians Aubrey Haynie, Viktor Krauss, Scott Neubert, & harmonies by grammy-winning singer/songwriters Jim Lauderdale & Claire Lynch. Her fourth CD, Hard Waltz, will be released early 2012. Kimberly's songs have also been recorded by others (Serious Doubt, was recorded by Grammy-winner Jeannie Kendall (The Kendalls), w/Allison Moorer on harmony). Her songs have been featured in CD compilations for Texas Monthly, Texas Highways, Kerrville End of the Century, & Rounder Heritage's Singer-Songwriter Collection. Anyone who's ever experienced the country folk of Houston singer-songwriter Kimberly M'Carver knows that she believes in symbolism. For her, train whistles are synonymous with loneliness, and a city like 'Santa Fe' drowns with spirituality . On the cover of her latest album, 'Cross The Danger Line,' she has stunning long hair the color of a red fox and green eyes. In person her stare is even more penetrating . one realizes how thin the line is between stardom and the search for it. A listen to 'Cross The Danger Line' makes one wonder why some promoter hasn't helped her cross it . Combining a mix of Nanci Griffith country-folk modernism and Loretta Lynn blue-collar strength, M'Carver has forged a collection of songs and performances that most country artists would love to call their own . [Brent] Truitt's fluttering mandolin harmony helps M'Carver and guest vocalist Jim Lauderdale make 'Death and Texas' the type of tongue-in-cheek country Emmylou Harris might indulge in . Michael D. Clark, Houston Chronicle (complete article can be found at kimberlymcarver.com) A sitting-on-the-beach-house-porch-in-a-breezy-sunset ambience . M'Carver's voice covers the same full-throated range that Emmylou Harris's does, but has a sweeter, more - dare we say it - 'dulcet' tone, and here she applies it lovingly to seven originals and three covers, including Greg Trooper's 'Ireland' and Van Zandt's underappreciated late-period gem 'Niles River Blues,' . M'Carver shows clearly with Danger Line that she no longer needs label help in putting out first-rate stuff . John Nova Lomax, Houston Press (complete article can be found at kimberlymcarver.com) If at some date in the future some industrious independent filmmaker decides to do the EmmyLou Harris story, don't be surprised if Kimberly M'Carver stars as Ms. Harris. she's certainly got the voice. Only M'Carver's may be an even purer voice than Harris's, a voice with wider range and uncannily perfect pitch and tone . Ms. M'Carver has a Hall of Fame voice, one of those rare vocal instruments most artists would kill to have . her songwriting just keeps reaching new heights. The fact that her 'Death and Texas' isn't being heard across the radio dial in Houston is another sign that the district attorney needs to investigate some of these local programmers who keep claiming they play 'The Songs of Texas' or 'The Sounds of Texas' or whatever their latest fraudulent false-advertising buzz-phrase is. Or else it proves that the County Health Examiner needs to offer free hearing aids to the obviously impaired radio programmers in town. Come on, people, listen up. We've got a winner here right in our midst and her name isn't Shania or Martina or Faith! . ROCKZILLAWORLD, Americana & Texas Reviews (complete article can be found at kimberlymcarver.com) M'Carver is such a sweet, heart-grabbing singer and accomplished songwriter . Her new 'Cross the Danger Line' is simply one of the finest Americana albums of 2001. Daniel Gewertz, Boston Herald There's a lot of blurring going on these days between the once-rigid categories of country, folk, pop and rock into what's variously known as "roots music" or Americana. M'Carver typifies this trend; with a clear passionate voice that's often compared to Emmylou Harris and knack for punchy sellf-mocking lyrics that recalls the best of Loretta Lynn, she still has the soulful looks and acoustic matrix of the classic folk performer. Take the lyrics to Fix'n Paint a song built around the image of a battered barroom chair that came to M'Carver in a dream. It's a bleak tune that speaks about morning-after disillusionment: It's as world-weary as anything Waylon or Willie ever did, but there's a literary quality to M'Carver's work that elevates it above the pork rinds and pickups . Mike Norton, Traverse City Record-Eagle, Michigan When it comes to country-folk, few can compete with Kimberly M'Carver . When one listens to the first three songs' Death and Texas, Return to Me, and Santa Fe' of Cross the Danger Line, he or she knows that M'Carver has hit upon the right approach: a hot band and superb song choices topped by her expressive voice, confident and comfortable . Both Santa Fe and Sweetest Surrender have the feeling of classics . For those who have copies of M'Carver's first two albums, no prodding will be needed to pick up a copy of her latest effort. For those unfamiliar, Cross the Danger Line will be a good place to start one's love affair with this fine country-folk artist . All Music Guide (****) The Houstonite's soprano could have been developed by NASA; light and delicate as gossamer, strong and flexible as titanium, a marvelously nuanced instrument that, for all it's gentleness and elegance, effortlessly dominates the proceedings . she does it live as well. M'Carver could well have achieved commercial success simply as a diva, but she's also a remarkable songwriter, whose folk-country has a similar dichotomy, combining poignant vulnerability with cool self-assurance. After a seven year interval, her third album, with eight originals informed by much musical and life experience and gorgeous covers of Greg Trooper's Ireland and Townes Van Zandt's Niles River Blues, is poised to garner even more critical acclaim than her much lauded Rounder albums, Breathe The Moonlight and Inherited Road, and rightfully so . John Conquest, 3rd Coast Music, Austin Texas (****) Think the clear voice of Dolly Parton, shifted down a step or so, and the big-eye flowing-hair mystique of Stevie Nicks, also ratcheted down a couple notches, and you have the aura of Houston singer-songwriter M'Carver. On her latest, the former Rounder artist releases three covers and seven originals that oscillate nicely between a pristine bluegrass and an edgy Texas sound. Backed up by first-rate Nashville-based musicians including Viktor Krauss, Aubrey Haynie and Scott Neubert, the album's co-producer, M'Carver renders polished covers of 'Return to Me' and Townes Van Zandt's 'Niles River Blues.' Her originals range from tender to tough: slower numbers like 'Santa Fe' and 'Sweetest Surrender' . have radio-ready melodies . In her faster, Texas-tinged numbers, however, M'Carver exercises her country musician's right to employ extended puns. 'There are certain things in life,' she sings, 'death and Texas . and another man's wife' . Country Standard Time, On the Record Four long years ago on from Breathe tbe Moonlight, M'Carver returns with a veritable tour de force of melody and magic. The Waiting was truly worthwhile. Welcome home . Brum Beat (Great Britain) The best of the Texas singer-songwriters had better not look back, because newcomer M'Carver is gaining on them. In a well-populated field, she is a cinch to make a respectable impact with this album. M'Carver's voice is full of innocence and emotion, the perfect vehicle for her poignant l

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