October 9, 2001

Downs, Jason : Cherokee

Spark up your lighters and get your tissues at the ready, hip-hop's favourite country star and owner of the finest cheekbones in music, Jason Downs, has gone soft

Spark up your lighters and get your tissues at
the ready, hip-hop's favourite country star and owner of the finest cheekbones in
music, Jason Downs, has gone soft. After the massive and
thoroughly deserved success of 'White Boy With A Feather' comes
the inevitable ballad. Notably, it features an actual North American Indian
flute. It tells of a Cherokee contemplating his history ("I used to own this
ground, now there's no place around for a Cherokee/in the great big city"),
and is remarkably similar to Nilsson's 'Everybody's Talkin'.
That said, Downs' tender voice could still melt the hardest
heart, but only if the song didn't send you to sleep first.

Siobhan Grogan