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Genre:
Country
Release Date: 08/21/2007
The second album by
country singer (and occasional songwriter)
Miko Marks is a solid piece of
traditionalist but not hidebound
country-pop. Pitched between acoustic
bluegrass influences and '70s
soft rock in much the same way that the early albums by
the Dixie Chicks were,
It Feels Good showcases a singer with a playful view of gender matters best shown on the swaggering
"Locked & Loaded," which out-brasses
Gretchen Wilson, and the wry childhood tomboy reverie
"The Son My Daddy Never Had." A powerful but never strident singer with a burnished, occasionally sultry voice,
Marks has a wider range both tonally and emotionally than many female
country singers, who are more easily locked into a certain predetermined style. Naturally, it could be argued that simply by virtue of being a black woman singing
traditional country music,
Marks is already opting out of the expectations game. Cleanly produced but lacking the impersonal sheen of too much contemporary Nashville music,
It Feels Good clicks on every level, making it a solidly enjoyable
neo-traditionalist country listen.
~Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
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