Just jumping out over the plate and saying holy shit their great before losing consciousness from having my brains being splattered all over the backstop by a 100mph fastball doesn't really constitute an effort. So I'm going to go down swinging trying to tell you why you're life will be so much better if you own this CD.
I could tell you how incredible their voices work together in harmony; that they are so seamless on occasion you can't tell which voice belongs to which person as they twine in around each other like a closely knit vine wrapping itself around the trunk of a tree. Or that her voice soars in the stratosphere, it makes you think of the wind in the treetops that doesn't come down to earth but you know it's there by the way the trees bend before it. But it can also plummet back down to earth in the blink of an eye and leave you guessing at where she's been and what she's seen only to have her tell you all about it in the next line.
I could tell you how his voice has the same eerie quality Neil Young's can take on occasionally without him sounding a bit like Neil Young. Or maybe I could say when I listen to him sing I think of the world laid out stretched around me; an endless panorama of sights and sounds traveling in all directions and cutting across time and place. Not necessarily of this time but so current it breaks your heart while at the same time gives you hope of a better tomorrow.
I could tell you they sing songs about love, relationships between couples and between peoples. That their songs speak of dignity, respect, and the wonders of the universe; that they are by turn, angry, sad, happy, and hopeful no matter what they're singing about. I could say some of their songs sound country, some sound like rock and roll, and some sound like old time country songs like Sarah Lee's granddaddy wrote.
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