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Wrapped in Sky
1995 studio album by Drivin N Cryin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wrapped in Sky is an album by the American band Drivin N Cryin, released in 1995.[2][3] The album marked a return to the band's earlier, folkier sound.[4]
The band supported the album by touring with Moonpools & Caterpillars.[5]
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Production
The album was produced by John Porter.[6] Porter was not the band's first choice, but several "bigger name" producers had declined the band's invitation.[7]
Peter Buck played dulcimer and mandolin on the album's opening tracks.[8] It was recorded without guitar player Buren Fowler, who had quit the band in 1994.[9]
Critical reception
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No Depression wrote that "the songs run toward character sketches, conveyed at ballad tempo with careful restraint."[14] Trouser Press determined that Wrapped in Sky captures the band's "broad stylistic ambitions better than on any other album," writing that "adjunct keyboardist Joey Huffman's textures are a valuable new contribution."[15] The Calgary Herald concluded that the album "drifts by, pleasant but its purpose, its passion, its very drive somehow lost along the way."[11] The Post and Courier labeled it "an album that often seems a dippy Dylanesque joke."[16]
The Washington Post thought that, "though the songs are well-crafted and the sound is well realized ... the overall effect is not exactly organic."[17] The Los Angeles Times stated that it "brims with music that's blissfully melodic (never cloying) and often quite fiery."[13] The Sun-Sentinel conceded that, while singer Kevin Kinney "doesn't have one of the best voices around, he certainly has one of the most earnest."[18] The Record lamented that "Kinney's wet-noodle vocals and high-falutin' lyrics tend to drag down his band's musical charms."[19]
AllMusic called Wrapped in Sky "the most overlooked and underrated of the Southern rock band's albums," writing that "Saving Grace" "is an untraditional gem of a power ballad."[10]
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