Chely Wright - Metropolitan Hotel
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Track List: Metropolitan Hotel
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- It's The SongDownload & Buy
- Back Of The Bottom DrawerDownload & Buy
- I Got Him Ready For YouDownload & Buy
- The RiverDownload & Buy
- Just The Way We Do ItDownload & Buy
- The Bumper Of My S.U.V.Download & Buy
- Your ShirtDownload & Buy
- Between A Monther And A ChildDownload & Buy
- Southside Of LonesomeDownload & Buy
- WheelsDownload & Buy
- C'Est La Vie (You Never Can Tell)Download & Buy
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Album Details: Metropolitan Hotel
- Release Date:
- 2/22/2005
- Label:
- Dualtone (Red)
- UPC:
- 803020120020
User Reviews: Metropolitan Hotel
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Wright matures into an album artist
, May 13, 2005
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| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Chely Wright wasn't the only female country vocalist to straddle the line between neotraditional country and slick modern countrypop, but she was one of the best of her kind, thanks in large part to her earthy tenor, which gave even the poppiest songs a rooting in real country. In 1999 she had a breakthrough with Single White Female, whose title track not only topped the country charts but cracked the pop Top 40, but she had a hard time capitalizing on its success, stumbling with its 2001 sequel Never Love You Enough, which may haved charted higher than its predecessor, but it was only due to momentum. It not only didn't produce a big hit, it lead to a separation from her major label MCA. When she reemerged nearly four years later on the indie Dualtone, she was part of a wave of artists from the '90s that turned toward indies after being abandoned by the majors, a movement that resulted in a bunch of interesting records that found artists who played the Nashville game for the better part of ten years find their true voice nearly a decade into the career. Sometimes the results were uneven, but they were always interesting and often were quite good, sometimes resulting in the riskiest and best work of an artists career, as is the case with Wright's 2005 album, The Metropolitan Hotel. For the first time, Wright wrote or cowrote the majority of the material eight of the 12 songs bear a writing credit for her and produced the entire record herself (five songs were coproduced with Jeff Huskins, one was coproduced with Stephony Smith). While she hasn't completely abandoned the sound of contemporary countrypop many of the songs could comfortably slip onto the radio the sound is strippedback and direct, as is the emotion, which gives The Metropolitan Hotel an affecting immediacy. Not that all of it works the cloying "The Bumper of My S.U.V." is wellintentioned, but one of the more awkward Iraqi war songs but those missteps only enhance the feeling that this album is a personal work for Wright, and that she's willing to make mistakes along the way. Even if this is riskier than her previous albums, this album is still a hybrid of melodic, catchy contemporary country and the gutsy spirit of such '70s trailblazers as Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, and for every confessional like "Between a Mother and a Child" there are two or three engaging openended tales of love. And that's what makes The Metropolitan Hotel such a success it's the sound of a professional musician finding the right blend of personal of universal in her writing and the right blend of country and pop her production, resulting in a record that's fullyrealized and multidimensional, easily her best and most complete album to date. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide |
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After several years of hard touring, Chely Wright broke through to become a chart-topping star on the contemporary country scene. Born Richelle Renee Wright in Kansas City in 1970, she grew up in the small town of Wellsville, KS, and fell in love wit...Full Chely Wright Biography
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After a four-year hiatus from album releases, and a departure from MCA for the artist-friendly indie Dualtone, Wright has returned with a songwriter's album. Her first self-produced album provides several interesting dichotomies. The self-penned songs are more personal than those she previously picked from Nashville's stable of writers, but at times the intimacy turns to treacle. Further, while the production is stripped back to a sound that balances nicely with Wright's earthy tenor, there's no escaping the years of being conditioned to the crossover sounds of her earlier radio-ready major-label releases.
The result feels like the first step in a new phase of Wright's career ...