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Born of and reflecting a period of personal loss, the Twangtown Paramours’ first all-acoustic outing, The Wind Will Change Again, finds husband-and-wife duo Mike T. Lewis and MaryBeth Zamer mulling anew the resiliency of the human heart in navigating upheavals internal and external alike. In the performances’ acoustic majesty we hear the Paramours as we’ve not heard them before, from the jubilant fiddle-fired strut of the newly liberated distaff narrator of “Sincerely Yours” (“Now you find this letter by the door/Signed Sincerely Yours No More”) to the tender, piano-based ballad extolling the unwavering love and support of “Old Friends” who “know how to reach you when you hide away.” Ms. Zamer, now a retired Federal prosecutor, reaches an apex of interpretive vocalizing here, so fully inhabiting the characters she portrays as to make them real. Multi-instrumentalist Lewis shines with a soulful lead vocal on “Part of Me,” a bit of pointed self-assessment in which “the part of me that’s you” is his shelter from the storm. Sensitive fingerpicking animates a cover of Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s “Tonight I Think I’m Gonna Go Downtown,” further enhancing an album built on a foundation of eternal verities and thus built to last.
By David McGee
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