Search - Jill Olson :: My Best Yesterday

Back and Better Than Ever!

John Bliss | Chicago, IL USA | 01/06/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Jill Olson's LONG awaited follow-up to "The Gal Who Would Be King" delivers just what her fans have needed. The music is more assured, the lyrics have greater emotional resonance, and her voice is more confident. Olson has honky-tonk in her heart and retro-pop in her soul, but she's smart enough to transcend mere genre work. She writes about the stuff of normal life -- hearing your lover on the phone to their ex-lover, living in a neighborhood you love but your friends think is creepy -- but spins it into something grander. The title tune is an unabashed love song ("You 'n me together is so much better than my best yesterday."), but it's delivered with so much heart, and such a lack of mawkish sentiment, that it delights. As does this terrific new outing from one of our great undiscovered talents."

Wholesome Jill Olson Makes the Grade

John Bliss | 07/25/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Best known for her work with hokey honky-tonkers RED MEAT (whose Olson-penned tune "Broken Up and Blue" is featured on the MONSTER'S BALL soundtrack), Wholesome Jill Olson packs a melancholy pop wallop on her new one "My Best Yesterday." Produced by Dave Alvin, Olson's new CD mixes folk-rock jangle with the hard-won wisdom of a woman forced to grow up."