The other Eileen Rose album (her debut) and, like Long Shot Novena, I got it cheap, since apparently either no one's heard of her or no one likes her - which in either case is everyone else's loss, because she's really rather good. I guess that part of the reason for this relative lack of recognition is that the music she makes isn't particularly fashionable - gritty, rootsy singer-songwriter fare with a slight country twang - and she doesn't have any particular gimmicks except the ability to write a good song and sing it well...
So anyway, Shine Like It Does isn't quite as good as Long Shot Novena - it's not as fully-realised and the songs aren't as consistently strong, with a couple dragging a bit ("Silver Ladle" in particular is a major miscalculation) - but it's still a very solid album, with a somewhat lighter feel than that other. Its best songs are "Lincoln Park", which works in a simultaneous lyrical and musical reference to Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline", and two near the end which I already knew, the epic "Shining" and breezy "Trying To Lose You"; I also like "Lie To Me" and the opening pair of "Rose" and "Still In The Family".
