Like everyone else, I heard "No Rain" some summer afternoon and found myself in love with its mellow, stripped-down sound and charmingly depressive lyrics.Unlike most everyone else, I also got into the rest of this one-hit wonder's stuff, slowly but surely, and finally bought this album a couple of months ago when I found it on disc and cheap. It's one of those albums I've been meaning to pick up forever, but always forgot about.
"Blind Melon" is a good album, but it's not my thing. For that reason, I haven't played it all that many times, though there are a few striking tracks that are among my favorite summer songs - "Change" and "Sleepy-house" being two of them. Folksy guitar work, a country twang, and occasional lapses into Vedder-esque wailing allow "Blind Melon" to straddle the line between commercial "grunge" and folk rather gracefully, but there's a fine line between graceful and boring. For me, this album straddles that line, too.
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