Ingram Hill, Blue Room Afternoon
Everything that might conceivably have endeareds me to the Southern pop band Ingram Hill has been stripped away from these acoustic renditions of their greatest hits. Not only is there little variety in the strum-and-plink guitar/piano arrangements, vocals which once were democratically mixed into a band-sized whole are now overpowering, overwhelming and grating. There’ve been so many worthwhile projects where rock artists have reworked their songs for acoustic intimacy that you’d think such obvious mistakes as those made here would be easily avoided. Instead, this supposedly stripped down (though embarrassingly slick) exercise is minimization only magnifies Ingram Hill’s glaring deficiencies.