Carmen Rasmusen - Nothin' Like the Summer

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Album Details: Nothin' Like the Summer

Release Date:: 08/07/2007
Label:: Lofton Creek
UPC:: 684497900823

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Carmen Rasmusen's name and face might ring a bell for fans of American Idol; she made it into the final six during the second season of the television program, the same season that made Clay Aiken a star. It would be easy to dismiss Rasmusen based on such ignoble beginnings, and she certainly does aim squarely at the polished, often artistically anemic world of mainstream country with her album Nothin' Like the Summer. The weakness of this album is in its predictability: Every pop country flourish is employed here, particularly on the title track, which reels off a list of bucolic, rural memories, delighting in the kind of sepiatoned front porch/fishing pole pap that Nashville has tried to sell us countless times before. (And, frankly, Rasmusen seems a bit young to have such nostalgic reveries.) In fact, every track here seems to employ a triedandtrue template, from every chord progression, to every sentiment, to every vocal nuance, to every peal of pedal steel. (Rasmusen is credited with a couple of cowrites, but for the most part, the songs are manufactured for her by other songwriters.) Nevertheless, Rasmusen does have a nice set of pipes and a rich, rounded tone that is reminiscent of the ivorythroated Kelly Willis. For the most part though, this is a predictable album. But in the mainstream country music world, predictability can often open doors.

- Erik Hage, All Music Guide

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Carmen Rasmusen Biography

A member of the Church of Latter Day Saints, Carmen Rasmusen was born March 25, 1985, in Edmonton, Canada, though she grew up in Bountiful, Utah. She took both dance and piano lessons at an early age, and at 13 she began singing lessons. In 2003, sho...Full Carmen Rasmusen Biography

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