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From Katie Herzig's "The Waking Sleep", available everywhere September 20, 2011.

Free My Mind

Lost and Found

Recorded in Arizona with Calexico's Joey Burns producing, Amos Lee's fourth studio album, 2011's Mission Bell, finds the singer/songwriter in a thoughtful mood and once again wrapping his soulful folk numbers in country, blues, and soft rock. A ruminative, lazy summer day of an album, Mission Bell is not dissimilar to Lee's last effort, 2008's Last Days at the Lodge, but lacks the more contemporary R&B tracks that made Last Days a bit of a departure from Lee's more granola leanings. Here listeners get the introspective leadoff track "El Camino" and the airy Steve Winwood-sounding ballad "Violin." Similarly engaging is the jaunty mid-album anthem "Flower," which is equal parts the Commodores' "Easy" and Hall & Oates' "She's Gone." It's a brilliant, joyously melodic number with the only downside being that it only works to remind you how melodically dire the rest of the album is. Which isn't to say Mission Bell is bad. On the contrary, there is a lot to admire here and maybe that's the main problem. Lee is a talented songwriter with a distinctive pop voice who is becoming recognized as an heir to the American singer/songwriter throne -- a notion given weight by the addition of several well-known guest artists here, including roots rocker Lucinda Williams and country legend Willie Nelson. That said, he often favors rambling, low-key country numbers that get you to quietly consider the bittersweet nature of our existence rather than lose yourself in the song. You come off a track like "Flower" and keep waiting for another one to grab you in the same "instant classic" kind of way. If Mission Bell rings true, it's in the lyrics with Lee's knack for stories and personal revelations keeping you listening, and not always the melodic content.

Mission Bell

Clear Blue Eyes (feat. Lucinda Williams)

Behind Me Now

Make The World Go Away-Elvis Presley

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Live performance by Katie Melua
of one of her best songs



Katie Melua - The Closest Thing to Crazy

Rory Gallagher Can't Believe It's True cover

hey stranger, when may i call you my own...?
i know i don't know you, but there's somewhere i've seen you before...
whatever your name is, whatever you do...
there's nothing between us i'm willing to loose...

just call me if ever our paths may collide...
i want you to call me under these darkening skies...
whoever you love, whoever you kiss...
the ones in between us i'm willing to miss...

now i'm drifting out over deep oceans...
and the tide won't take me back in...
and these desperate nights i'll call you again and again...

there's comfort, comfort in things we believe...
other than danger, wanting the things i can't see...
where ever you live now, where ever you walk...
there's distance between us i'm willing to cross...

now i'm drifting out over deep oceans...
and the tide won't take me back in...
and these desperate nights i'll call you again and again...

now i'm drifting out over deep oceans...
and the tide won't take me back in...
and these desperate nights i'll call you again and again...

hey stranger, when may i call you my own...?
i know i don't know you, but there's somewhere i've seen you before...

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