Rating: 3/5
Review:
Competent but nothing special
This is a perfectly decent Country album, sometimes with a
rockier feel than some, but especially at a time when we are very blessed with
brilliant women producing a lot of very fine Country/Americana, it's nothing
very special, I'm afraid.
Sarah Pierce has a good voice, she can put a song across
well and her band is skilful and tight, so the overall sound is pretty
good. However, the material isn't all
that much to shout about. The songs are
competently crafted musically without managing to be particularly memorable or
original, and the lyrics are pretty clunky.
Sarah Pierce sings of familiar Country themes – celebrating the life and
people in small town America, or the toughness of Country women, for example,
but there's little of the finesse or originality which characterises the best
Country songs, which can create a vivid, complex picture in just a couple of
lines.
Others may like Barbed Wire more than I do, and there's
certainly nothing actively wrong with it but I can only give it a very
qualified recommendation.
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