• All She Wanted

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  When you have people who have made their bones in certain musical genres, when they crank out new albums you tend to expect more of the same from them. At least that's what I do. There are exceptions, of course. There are some who dare to be different.
  If anyone in the music business has the courage to try different things, it's singer/songwriter/entertainer Bill Madison. I just listened to Bill's album, 'All She Wanted' and, quite frankly, I was pleasantly surprised to see a man with fifty years in the music industry, a guy who has been pretty much connected to the folk genre and ballad singing doing covers of such songs as Jerry Rafferty's, 'Baker Street,' and Lynyrd Skynyrd's, 'Simple Man.'
  I could dissect the words in the songs for their meaning but, they belong to the writers. The greater value in reviewing an album such as this, one that is built around covers, wrests in the analysis of the musical interpretation of the artists singing and in the musicianship. Bill's album 'All She Wanted,' does not leave us wanting in any of these areas. It is built around solid production, excellent musical interpretation, and fine vocals and musicianship. The way 'Baker Street' is done in this album is as good a cover of this song as I have ever heard.
  And, while the lyrics on these covers might have been written by someone else, when Bill puts them out there, he owns them. He gives them a meaning that only he can give them through a voice and style that has been tested on the road of life for a very long time.
  While I like the energy and creativity that Bill brings to the songs he covers in this album, I especially like the song 'All She Wanted,' the album's title song, a Bill Madison original that he wrote with his wife, Nancy. It speaks of a woman who wanted true love with happiness and no abuse, who wanted appreciation and respect for her being a loving, caring, genuine person. It speaks of a woman who came to the realization that she could not get what she needed from the man she was with. This song tells of something that was lost because a man was too wrapped up in himself to notice the needs of his loving woman. It spells out rather poignantly and with a great sense of melancholy that point in time when love can be lost through one's self-centered behavior. This song hits the listener with a dose of reality that could very well be in anyone's life right now. It is superb.
  I really like this album. I am glad that I now have it in my collection. I hope that you will buy this fine piece of music.
  Merle Burke
  
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