Coco [Digipak]

Performer: Colbie Caillat
Producer: Colbie Caillat; Mikal Blue; Ken Caillat; Jason Reeves; Mikal Blue; Colbie Caillat; Jason Reeves; Ken Caillat
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Colbie Caillat (acoustic guitar); Colbie Caillat; Jaco Caraco (electric guitar); Dave Marotta, Yukihide Takiyama (bass guitar); Tim Fagan (guitar); Jason Reeves (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, ukulele, piano); Mikal Blue (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer, bass guitar); Stevie Blacke (violin, viola, cello); Brian Carr (strings, piano); Mark Levang (grand piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Dylan Charbeneau (Fender Rhodes piano); Michael Baker , Victor Indrizzo (drums); Cecil "Censi" Francis (steel drum); Luis Conte (percussion). Audio Mixers: Mikal Blue; Ken Caillat. Liner Note Author: Coco. Photographers: Colbie Caillat; Jason Reeves; Meredith Ward; Andrew Southam. On her 2007 debut, COCO, Los Angeles, California-based singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat offers up a charming set of R&B-tinged acoustic pop. Aided by her father, veteran producer Ken Caillat (Fleetwood Mac), as well as multi-instrumentalist/producer Mikal Blue and vocalist/guitarist Jason Reeves, Caillat comes across as a female counterpart to fellow laid-back West Coast performer Jack Johnson, particularly on the light, easy-going number "Bubbly." Sweetness rules on Colbie Caillat's debut, Coco, which is perhaps only appropriate for an album bearing that name. The record doesn't play like a toasty mug of chocolate on a winter's day, though; it's a sugary lemonade on a breezy summer afternoon. It's light and comforting, a familiar blend of sunny pop and singer/songwriter tropes that flirt with clich� but never sound hackneyed -- a lighter, brighter spin on Norah Jones that sounds like an ideal soundtrack to a few hours in a cozy coffeehouse or a montage on Grey's Anatomy, whatever comes first. If that gives the impression that Caillat is a little calculated -- and if her music-biz heritage (her dad co-produced Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Tusk) gives the sense that she may have had a silver spoon, and if her celebrated MySpace popularity is also initially suspect -- then as an album Coco shows no crassness or coldness: it flows easily and, yes, sweetly, filled with gently ingratiating melodies and delivered with warmth and a casual charisma that proves to be quite endearing by the end of the record. Caillat doesn't attempt anything approaching a major statement -- the album is filled with songs about love and life -- but that's her appeal: she sings about simple, everyday things in an unassuming manner, letting her melodies and girl-next-door charm carry the day, and they do so winningly on this nicely mellow debut. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat hails from Southern California, and her mellow, sunny sound plays like an update of the classic California soft rock of the 1970s. (The fact that her father Ken Caillat produced Fleetwood Mac's RUMOURS and TUSK, and assisted on his daughter's debut, helps the association). In her mid-teens, Caillat began collaborating with Mikal Blue and Jason Reeves to develop her first songs, which she first posted on MySpace. The enormous popularity of Caillat's MySpace page led to a deal with Universal Republic, which released her debut COCO in 2007, and featured the smash hit "Bubbly." Her pepped up sound proved durable enough to make her a regular feature on the pop charts.

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