Artist: Tracy Nelson
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #71 Sep-Oct 2007
Tracy Nelson – You’ll Never be a Stranger at My Door
Tracy Nelson’s Mother Earth was one of the first San Francisco bands to embrace country music, after relocating to Nashville in 1969 (before moving to Nashville was cool) and releasing Mother Earth Presents Tracy Nelson Country. Drop the first three words and that title would fit this long-overdue sequel, in which Nelson balances the big [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #47 Sept-Oct 2003
Tracy Nelson – Live From Cell Block D
Recorded at the West Tennessee Detention Center in December, Live From Cell Block D follows in the tradition of prison recordings by Johnny Cash, B.B. King and others. But Tracy Nelson went one step further, performing separate shows for male and female inmates. At 55, Nelson’s vocal range remains undiminished. She’s able to reach the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #35 Sept-Oct 2001
Tracy Nelson – Ebony & Irony
On her 20th album since 1965, Tracy Nelson returns to the formula that made her 1993 release In The Here And Now an artistic success. She mixes up blues, rhythm & blues and gospel-harmony ballads, most of them addressing past, present and future heartaches by domineering, noncommittal men. The diva-without-attitude addresses each song with little [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #6 Nov-Dec 1996
Tracy Nelson – Mother Earth Presents Tracy Nelson Country – The Best of Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth
Godmother of Americana? Perhaps the music of Tracy Nelson fits no more comfortably within the categorical confines of such terms than it did when she began recording it more than a quarter-century ago. Even so, these reissues suggest that this undersung heroine was way ahead of her time, both in blurring the distinctions dividing country, [...]
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