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".
Brother Adams
Blood
Jim Keaveny
Put It Together
Erin McKeown
We Will Become Like Birds
THE GREENCARDS
Fascination
Dave McGraw & Mandy Fer
Off Grid Lo-Fi
MILLION SELLERS
Music City USA and Other Ghost Stories
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