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Real Day
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  1. Audio CD: Release Date 1999-03-03
  2. Publisher: Redeye Distribution
  3. Sales Rank in Music: #312693

Product Review

The songs on "Real Day" reflect how I see everyday life. The characters, are all parts of me -- kind of my weird take on the world and definitely a little bent but that's how I see things. The songs have many influences -- from rock to country -- inspired by artists ranging from Tom Petty to Rickie Lee Jones. People ask me who I compare myself to or what the album sounds like -- although I hate to limit my music, "Real Day" is pop with a lot of roots influences.

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Alice Peacock's debut album, Real Day, is a wonderful set of country rockers, ballads, and honky-tonk workouts. Lyrically, Peacock delivers the goods on the usual subject matter--love, heartbreak, and personal triumph--but with a sincerity and originality that is rare and refreshing. The character of her voice entices you and makes you care about what she's saying. In the song "I'll Be the One," Peacock proclaims with quiet triumph that she's "not the one you're looking for" and that she'll "be the first to say good-bye," and yet the plaintiveness in her voice gives her away. Independence is righteous, but also lonely. In its more electric moments, full of organ washes, pedal steel, articulate guitar solos, and a punchy, melodic rhythm section, Real Day pulses with a slick, roots-rock sensibility reminiscent of the Jayhawks. When the album brings the mood inward with intimate tracks replete with cello, mandolin, and piano, you want to sit closer and really listen. This is a mature, personal effort by a young artist who has clearly seen much in her life, and yet one gets the feeling that the journey is only just beginning. --Michael Wells
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Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review
4.5 out of 5 stars (17 customer reviews)

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Alice Peacock (this bird has flown), March 22, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Real Day (Audio CD)
Alice Peacock has a voice that rings like chimes, that soars and floats, that cradles and lifts the words she sings, before setting them back on earth. This freshman outing has a ripe quality that is carried by her sheer vocal vivaciousness. A first listen will remind one of the early pop of Joni Mitchell, not because of tone, but because of the sensual roundness and depth, evident on "Cracks and Daggers", where, not to belabor the bird metaphor, Peacock's voice spirals up like a high-flying dove. Picture a blue sky and that far-away mesmerizing speck in the distance, swooping and diving: graceful, otherworldly.When Peacock keeps it basic, as on "Exit" her pure acoustic guitar and soothing vocals stand on their own. Add simple accompaniment like cello and mandolin, and Peacock's voice alone adds the lush richness on "My Love I Will", as tender a love song as one could wish for. Nothing is forced, as the controlled muscle of her voice unfolds such a sensitive spot.On...Read more


8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Alice is a gem!, December 31, 1999
Casey S. Pearce "Milestones" (Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Real Day (Audio CD)
Back in November I had attended a William Topley concert, where Alice was the opener. With the first song not even done, I knew I had to get the CD. Her voice was just so amazing live. After her performance, we bought a copy of her CD and talked to her briefly. She was so kind and generous. I took the CD home that night and absolutely fell in love with it! Just the other night I popped it in again and REALLY realized how beautiful the CD is. It has the perfect mixture of mellow and more upbeat songs. Her songwriting is superior, especially on the songs I Hear You Say, Cracks And Daggers, Exit, and My Love, I Will. Sincerely...there is not a bad tune on this CD. Once of my favorite CD's is Amy Grant's Behind The Eyes, and Real Day reminds me of that CD, but it is entirely different from it as well. I can't wait to get the chance to see her play live once again. A great voice, and a great talent!


7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply unbelievable!, May 29, 2001
Mike Kelly (Freeport, New York United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Real Day (Audio CD)
I met Alice Peacock when she came to perform at my college. I was working sound that night, and not really looking forward to another pop/folk/country singer that I had to sit through. But When she began singing, I became enthralled. Alice Peacock truly has a musical and emotive talent that I have very rarely seen before. Even being a poor college student, I bought her CD immediately after she finished. It became one of my most listened-to CDs, and I wouldn't want to part with it for anything. There is honestly not a song on this CD that I didn't like. It makes you think and feel in a different way. If you like music on par with Joni Mitchell, that is a rock/folk mood with poetry as lyrics, get this CD. You won't regret it.

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