2005-03-01
Impressive.The songs have a sort of distant, aged feel to them, as if they'd be playing when you walked into an abandoned building in a ghost town. They're like an old-fashioned folk-pop, if there is such a thing.
Cleverly, the record is dedicated to "the last of the independent & open format community radio". How did he know we'd go for that?
12 original tunes and covers that include Brian Wilson's "You Still Believe in Me", The Carter Family's "Oh Take Me Back" and a hushed album-closing take on J.S. Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier".
Glen Campbell
Meet Glen Campbell
BETH ORTON
Comfort of Strangers
BIG LEG EMMA
The Color Of Wind
Brett Martin Hoerner
Somewhere in Sonoma
HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS
Medicine County
LARA EWEN AND THE UNSTRUNG ORCHESTRA
Ghosts and Gasoline
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