"On
the cover of You Can't Take
a Bad Girl Home, the Fabulous
Ginn Sisters (that's a hard "G," as
in "guilty") stare out
with a stark, Xerox-quality attitude
as heavy-lidded, pouty-lipped,
hip-cocked rockabilly queens. In
person, their pure Texas bloodlines
give way to a fresh-faced, corn-fed
sweetness – one that equally
suggests they've already hoed tough
rows." Margaret Moser,
Austin Chronicle
After
critically acclaimed singer-songwriter
and visionary
iconic artist Fred Eaglesmith selected
The Fabulous Ginn Sisters to
tour as part of the Fred
Eaglesmith Band,
he
was struck by the new duo’s
rough, rawboned sound and invited
them to record their new CD in
his Port Dover, Ontario studio.
As a result, the sisters have been
barnstorming North America
for many months with Eaglesmith
(their
Lonesome Day labelmate) and his
band, who back the Ginns both on
their
album and on tour, giving the recordings
a road-tested assurance and organic
flow plus live performance energy
and immediacy. Their 10-song disc
is also produced by Eaglesmith who
sisters Tiffani
and Brit Ginn sang with
on his latest CD, Cha
Cha Cha, and
backed him up on his “The
Late Show with David Letterman” appearance.
You Can’t Take A Bad
Girl Home, as its title
implies, is a smoky, drunken
stumble through a broken-heart
junkyard with a pair of smart,
hip, independent and thoroughly
modern women whose sibling harmonies
and unison singing has irresistible
siren magnetism. The songs, written
by Tiffani Ginn,
offer a mesmerizing journey on
the roller coaster of modern
romance graced with eloquence,
directness and sharply drawn
stories, characters and wordplay.
Having already conquered the roots
music scene, the Fabulous
Ginn Sisters have now
made a marked dodge towards rock’n’roll
on this second outing. The songs
are bleak and brutally honest
yet poppy, the singing is subtle
and
nuanced while at the same time
sassy, assertive and drenched
with panache,
and the music is a garage mix
of reverb and mystery hum that
melds
traditional echoes with contemporary
crackle and punch.
As Eaglesmith says of the disc, “This
is a pop/rock CD, propagated in South
Texas, cultivated on the road… the
songs spill over into a side of town
where reality is kick-started and
sadness is a lurking stranger that
won’t go away. It is both
raw and beautiful.”
No Depression hails “their
head-spinning harmonizing” of
these “confidant, soulful vocalists
who sing every song like their family’s
honor depended on it.” And
as Third Coast Music notes, “Tiffani
really can write a distinctive,
offbeat song.”
The Fabulous Ginn Sisters leapt
to the head of the Americana class
with
their 2006 debut album, Blood
Oranges.
Praised by the Austin Chronicle as “a
ripe, tasty offering,” it won
critical acclaim across the U.S.
and overseas and landing at year’s
end as the #1 independently
released CD on the Americana chart. It also
hit #2 on the Roots Music Report
and #3 on the FAR (Freeform American
Roots) charts, and enjoyed heavy
rotation on national and local radio
stations, cable radio channels and
Internet stations, including XM
Radio’s tastemaking X Country.
So even if You Can’t Take
A Bad Girl Home, this disc is sure
to reside in the hearts of anyone
who loves music that’s as
real as a soul kiss and as charming
as
two Fabulous musical women can
be when they’re so bad in
all the best ways that they’re
utterly magnificent. They can
be seen and enjoyed live on tour
usually
opening for as well as singing
with Fred Eaglesmith and his band
as well as
playing their own shows with The
Freaks.
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