Cheryl Thibideau taps into the spirit of classic country

Print
If you miss traditional  country music along the lines of Patsy Cline, check out  Cheryl Thibideau’s new CD “ My Heart Still Remembers,”
 Which she not only released on CD by vinyl as record as well.Click here to hear Cheryl Thibideau
 It open up with  some sighing steel guitar and  melody right out of the late ’50s and early ’60 on ‘Unless You care.’
 It features some Canadian country royalty as well including duets  with  2012 CCMA  Hall of Famer Johnny Burke and the one and only Ian Tyson, who sings on  Honeymoon and  ‘A Country Song,’ respectively.
 She has a truly beautiful voice, and that steel guitar just takes you back.
 The Johnny Burke duet is gorgeous. While the music is right out of the southern United States, the lyrics are pure Canadiana as  Burke and Thibideau sing about dancing with Anne Murray on “Honeymoon.”
The highlight of the record is her sprightly Canadianized version of Woody Guthrie’s ‘This Land,’ in which she seamlessly intersperses the Canadian national anthem in between lyrics of  “from Bonavista to Vancouver Island, from the Arctic Circle to the Great Lake waters.”
 Ian Tyson adds his well worn voice to the heart tugging ‘A Country Song.’
 She winds the record down with a solid verison  Buffy St. Marie’s tender tender ballad “ Until it’s Time for you to Go.”
 There is also an exceptional bittersweet, whimsical song themed around Christmas called ‘So’s Christmas’ about waiting for her boyfriend to come home  and finally propose.
— by Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
CD: My Heart Still Remembers
Artist: Cheryl Thibideau
Genre: country
Share