Just got my new One Flew South CD today and was very excited to listen to the whole thing after listening to a few of their songs last week.
First off, I'm not exactly sure how to describe the overall sound of the CD. Much of it has a very classic country sound, but then you get a song such as It Is Good and it sounds almost like a Christian rock/Christian country song. This I say happily, it's a good sound, a different sound than you'd expect from a country CD today, and sometimes different is just what you want and need. Then you get to the last song on the CD, Too Old to Die Young, and I actually got chills. It was absolutely beautiful, short and sweet, and definitely a great way to end the disk. My favorite song of the group is still My Kind of Beautiful, and I hope to start hearing this on my radio soon. Maybe it's already been playing there and I just haven't caught it yet.
I think this CD will make the country traditionalists happy because it doesn't have that country-pop sound that a lot of music these days has, but it has enough appeal to play on the radio and make the contemporary listeners happy also. In this day of country cross-overs, it's nice to find a group who's willing to be country and embrace their unique sound. You can listen to their music and be pretty sure country is where they belong and where they'll probably stay.
Now that I've said all the nice things, I do have one complaint and that is that the trio is almost too harmonious, if that's possible. I found myself wanting to hear one singer more often with the others as backup. Not one singer stood out from the rest, which is I'm sure what they were going for, but it left me wanting to be able to tell who was who in the music. I guess since my only complaint is that they are too good at working as a group, I can't really say this is a bad thing, just a wish for their future music.
Overall I think country listeners will be happy with this debut album. If you want something to soothe your ears and tap your foot to I think you'd be happy if you picked up One Flew South's new CD, Last of the Good Guys.
