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salt of the earth
Album Rating: (4 of 5 stars)
Review Comments: Like most music lovers I have a list of songs I consider to be perfect. 'Summer Evening' is one of them. The first few times I listened to the record I missed it, but it finally got a hold of me one day while I was driving my pickup on Hwy 1 near Kalona. This is a great record.
TAKES THE COAL OF LIFE... SINGS IT INTO DIAMONDS
Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)
Review Comments: This is the best music I've heard in quite some time. OVER
AND UNDER is a gem, a treasure. Sparse, but tasty, earthy instrumentation (including banjo, fiddle, lap steel, mandolin)
along with some great guitar work by Bo Ramsey, augment
the gravelly vocals, and on the dot, piercing at times,
gentle at times, lyrics. My favorite song is InaBell
Sale - which is a wacky eulogy/celebration of a mean,
hateful, woman's death, with Bo's spooky solo electric
guitar providing the backround atmosphere. Oh Sweet Jesus,
please give us the strength to carry Inabell's annoying
fat ass to the grave... she had enough knickknacks to sink the Titanic...and 40 pounds of frozen pot pies, come to the sale...
poor Pete, her late husband, she killed him with her yelling
and nagging, so much that he would slap himself at the dinner table... - this tune is hiliarious but stark naked real- I
was once married to a woman like Anabell, but unlike poor Pete,
I shook loose and got away. who will buy her hippo bra, her nylons for pylons???
Greg's lyrics are that strong, they give one a wistful smile and
a needle in the spine at the same time. All the tunes here are
sketches of rural Americana, the type of place where I've longed to live, but I
can only visit via Greg's songs. This is one of Mr. Brown's best, miss it
at your listening peril.
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