I Tried to Rock You But You Only Roll

　　Leona Naess是著名的Diana Ross前夫Arne Naess的女儿，她生于英国伦敦并在那里长到18岁才返回纽约，之后就在纽约大学学习音乐。她的音乐受到广泛的影响，作为Indie Rock/Folk歌手，受到Joni Mitchell和Edie Brickell的影响是很自然的---尤其是同Edie如出一辙的声线，听了都让人觉得像到不可思议，但同时她的音乐还被The Cure，Da vid Bowie以及Joy Division所影响着。
　　在纽约的一些俱乐部演出之后，23岁的Leona出版了Comatised，并且Charm Attack还取得小小名气，在2001年的时候她推出了I Tried to Rock You But You Only Roll，这张专辑是在她同Eagle-Eye Cherry和Da vid Gray的巡演间隙腾时间创作的，相比前一张，更加的阴暗了一点，但这张专辑发掘了她在音乐上更大的潜力，她声名雀起，成为别具一格的Indie Rock/Folk女歌手，并被很多音乐人如Nina Gordon等赏识推崇。
　　2003年出版的同名专辑是她和Ethan Jones一起完成的，很是轻快可爱，我也是因为Nina Gordon的推荐，听了现场版的Calling才认识这位女歌手的，她的声音还和我喜欢的另外一个英国民谣女歌手Kathryn Williams很像，她们的声音都是那种听了极度舒服的，没有太多造作的鼻音和故意摆弄音域，如果某天你需要调整自己杂乱的心情，比如像这时我一样，你可以尝试播放她的音乐，绝对不会让你更郁闷的说。
　　转Amazon的介绍：
　　A Sheryl Crow with drum programmers as the motor of her dreams, singer-songwriter Leona Naess delivers an affecting second album. I Tried to Rock You could be an answer to the many listless Sensitive Guys clogging 2001 airwaves; Naess's vulnerability sounds not like a ploy to land her on teen-flick soundtrack albums, but like an honest reaction to the love troubles she's encountered since her debut. Open-hearted but never at a loss when it comes to tapping her own strength, Naess is arched-eyebrow funny when dissing and dismissing a lover in the title track, happily puzzled when admitting in "Sunny Sunday" that "I didn't mean to like u so much." Now that the press has lost interest in focusing on her beauty and privileged background (she is the daughter of Diana Ross's ex-husband Arne Naess), the field is clear for Naess's sensible love songs to resound--as it does perhaps most clearly when she reconfigures a pop-culture watchword to read "boys like you never cry." --Rickey Wright

　　Mexico

　　Mayor of Your Town

　　All the Stars

　　I Tried to Rock You But You Only Roll

　　Sunny Sunday

　　Weak Strong Heart

　　Blue Eyed Baby

　　Boys Like You

　　Hurricane

　　Panic Stricken

　　Serenade

　　Promise to Try

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