it sticks like smoke to your clothes

Since music seems to be the only art that I'm able to post about lately--something that will no doubt shift when I'm unable to comtemplate anything beyond wall colors--I thought I'd mention the Ginn Sisters.  My favorite dj on WCUW, the Wednesday morning Crosstracks guy, has been playing them over the past few months.  He does a great show, with lots of old country, western swing, jump blues and the like, mixed in with contemporary stuff that meets his standards and fits in.  Lately he's been playing the Ginn Sisters' song "Broken Spirit", which you can hear at their myspace page if you click on the title (at least, most of the time you can; sometimes it doesn't work.)  Last time I heard him play it, he exclaimed afterwards about how it could be, and should be, a bit hit on contemporary country radio.  And I agree, even though I don't like contemporary country radio, and yet still kinda like the song.  The edges of it that come close to contemporary country--the cleanliness of the sound and the (for lack of a better term on my part) fullness of lead singer Tiffani Ginn's voice for starters--are what send up warning signs in my mind about the song.  But when sister Brit's harmonies kick in, it's all good.  I admire the way they go for it in the singing of the song, not adding extraneous notes in the horrible melisma addiction of so much popular music today, but just adding intensity and passion to what's already there.  And, when you come right down to it, it's a pretty classic country weeper.  So I know why the WCUW guy likes it; and if I can't quite get as comfortable with it as he seems able to, I can't stop listening to it, either.