CONNIE KALDORPostcards From the Road
(Outside Music)
** (out of 5)
There’s a fine line between eloquent simplicity and mere banality, between familiar shared truths and shopworn sentiments, and far too often on Postcards From the Road, singer/songwriter and Canadian folk festival mainstay Connie Kaldor can be heard settling for the latter. These are songs about how hard it is to say goodbye, how hard it can be to put your finger on why you love the people you do, how your life might have been hugely different if you’d chosen another path, and how nice it feels to be in love. All perfectly legitimate subjects for songs, of course, but Kaldor doesn’t ring any fresh changes on them. Love is like a mountain. It makes your heart flutter like a bird. When romance ends, it leaves a hole inside you.
Kaldor’s warm, supple voice can make even weak material sound good, but even so, I'm afraid there's very little on Postcards From the Road that's worth writing home about.
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