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Photography, Graphics and Design by Ellen Moore Osborne, Trinity Arts www.trinityarts.com

1. Wings of Love   mp3 - WMA
2. Rattled
3. Introduction to Heroes
4. Heroes   mp3 - WMA
5. Song for David
6. Once Upon a Time   mp3 - WMA
7. Broken Man   mp3 - WMA
8. Introduction to Anna Carolyn
9. Anna Carolyn
10. Hope
11. Back to Barboursville
12. We'll Have Elvis
13. Louisiana 1927

Musicians
Terri Allard - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Gary Green -- Harmonica
Sonny Layne - Upright Bass, Electric Bass, Vocals
Jeff Saine - Accordion, Lap Steel, Vocals
Jim Taggart - Guitar, Mandolin, Violin, Vocals

Special Guests
Bill Allard - Vocals, Track 13
John Jennings - Electric Guitar, Tracks 6 & 13
Art Wheeler - Keyboard, Track 13

If you were there that night, this recording takes you back on a cloud. And if you weren't there, you are now.

Terri and the boys open on Wings of Love with fingers flying over the strings of their instruments, notably Jim Taggart’s soaring mandolin. But they're just setting up for the train that rumbles through on their cover of the Traveling Wilbury’s Rattled.

Listening to this CD, you expect the walls to start shaking. With Gary Green's harmonica steaming, Terri stokes the fire with her gutsy alto then poignantly introduces the next song, Heroes, on which she tells about her four-year-old son donning a super-hero cape for a flight to Heaven in order to bring back Terri's brother Scott. It's a tribute to her songwriting ability that Terri can sing about such sadness with stark guitar virtuosity and still lift the spirit, which she does with aching clarity on Hope.

Backed by her band of consummate musicians on lap steel, upright bass, violin, accordion, guitar, harmonica and mandolin, Terri chronicles the highs and lows of just living every day. Whether singing with a country lilt on Once Upon a Time or velvet-voiced raucousness on We'll Have Elvis, Terri Allard is an American original. Along with special guests John Jennings (Mary Chapin Carpenter's longtime collaborator) and jazz pianist Art Wheeler, Terri and her Dad, Bill Allard, bring the whole magical evening on home with an emotional duet of Randy Newman’s Louisiana 1927... an event that no one has to miss thanks to this superb recording.

"Makes No Sense"
Terri Allard's fourth recording, was produced by Terri and Bruce Hornsby sideman Bobby Read. The CD is a collection of Terri's country folk originals, including "Anna Carolyn", written with 5-time Grammy Award winner Mary Chapin-Carpenter

"(Loose Change and Spare Parts) is an 11-song collection that is both her most emotionally satisfying work and... read more

Bill Craig, Richmond Times Dispatch