Hannah Cranna
A Real Nice Parade
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STYLE: Jangle
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1. Hello
2. Are You Going Home, Polly?
3. Paul
McCartney and Wings
4. Get Close
5. Enough
6. Take This Darkness
7. Something Left Behind
8. Halcyon Days
9. Coming Untrue
10. Toeing The Line
11. Heroine In Ohio
12. Money/Flying (with special guest Joey Molland)
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Issue
#155
Jan.
'12
It’s a new year.
From the ashes of the old, rise the hopes of the
new. Years have a way of maturing past their time, and when looked back
upon it’s
easy to understand why we’d like to replicate most of them to
a certain degree.
Many of us, who look forward to what the new year(s) has to offer, also
revel
in those past years that made it possible. Hannah Cranna knows it’s a new
year, they also know how they
arrived here, the maturing of the old years raises hope of the new, but
first
they will revel in a presentation of A Real Nice Parade.
It’s a new year.
A Real Nice Parade marches the specter that is Hannah Crannna in front of us so that we may
enjoy, understand and
revel in their past and future glory. Two brilliantly received albums,
one
Power-pop and one Americana were released in the late 90s.
The band then morphed
into The
Naomi Star with a bit
of a line up shuffle, and after 3 successful releases, morphed back
into a
reformed Hannah
Cranna – and from the
ashes of the old…
It’s a new year.
Hannah Cranna’s A Real Nice Parade starts off with homage to The
Beatles – 4 good,
solid, jangle, “I Love You,” Beatles pop songs tear
it up. In the opening Hello, (with nods to Tom Petty)
– (try not to sing along),
it’s Girls, Girls, I-Love-You Girls the way the Beatles loved
them. Are
You Going Home, Polly? echoes the same
country/Americana the early Beatles were so accustom
to when they did covers like “Mr. Moonlight,”
“Devil In Her Heart,” and “Words
of Love” – Can you say Buddy Holly? Paul
McCartney & Wings
flaunts, and rightfully so, the bands
ability to write a silly love
song that
stands beside those of Sir Paul. Finally, bringing up this section of
the
Parade is Get Close which, following the path of
the Beatles to Wings,
now ushers forth John Lennon, and blends with a slightly modern The
Knack sound.
It’s a “Love Me Do” feel at just the
right moment.
It’s a new year.
Hannah Cranna now moves on to the moment
when the Parade of past
new years turns more modern, more Wilco-esque. With Enough, Hannah Cranna
presents in front of the viewing/listening stand their multiple
approaches to
music, displaying their expertise along with it. Take
This Darkness
channels The Who with razor sharp grooves as it drops into a Crazy
Horse style
Southern Rockin’, a song which sounds like an updated version
of Are
You Going Home, Polly?. Something Left Behind is a mid-summer, sunset ballad
that’s been around
ever since someone picked up a guitar at a beach bonfire and off we go,
we’re
launched into Peal Jam/Wilco/Toad The Wet Sprocket/Allman Bros.
territory… “I know that
you know / but who is to blame
/ It seems like / A
real nice parade / Then, it starts
to rain.” Hannah Crannah will not leave their story
behind. They parade it
in front of our ears so we may look back on how their years have
matured, and
when they tell us; “I was keeping up
with
something left behind,” we realize how all the
music presented here is a Hannah Cranna timeline. Halcylon
Days asks us to remember Get Close, The Beatles, and I Wanna Hold
Your Hand – but,
they are also plunging into the New Year, marching ahead, all the while
asking
“Do you remember? / I remember /
those
Halcyon Days…”
It’s a new year.
Hannah Cranna begins it by paying homage to
the past, the final
procession of this real nice parade is 4 tracks from ’97
which were produced
and mixed (also played on) by former Badfinger member Joey Molland. Coming
Untrue, Toeing the Line, Heroine in Ohio (“Think
about
the years you left behind/Don’t think they were just a waste
of time/ They were
mine”), and Money/Flying (live
’97) show that they had mastered in
’97 what took Jeff
Tweedy & Co. 10 more years to figure out. It’s Big,
Bold, Rootsy, and
Ballsy. Grand, majestic, sweeping soundscapes that bring up the rear of
this parade
and make us look to the beginning/future once again…
It’s a new year.
From the ashes of the old Hannah Cranna, rise the hopes of the new.
It’s
A Real Nice Parade.
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Nice Parade by Hannah Cranna
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