Dry Branch Fire Squad - Hand Hewn
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Artist: Dry Branch Fire SquadEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2009-09-22
Music Label: Rounder
Soundtracks:
- Angelina Baker
- I Saw a Man at the Close of Day
- I Can Go to Them
- Nazeer, Nazeer (Nazeer, Nazeer)
- Atlanta Is Burning
- Willye Brennan
- While Roving on Last Winter's Night
- Sailor's Return
- Black Lung
- Cuckoo Is a Pretty Bird
- Two Coats
- Midnight, the Unconquered Outlaw
- I'll Live Again
- Papa's Billy Goat
- Lonesome Road Blues
Music reviews of Hand Hewn
Music Review: Music you can't get out of you head
Rating: 5 Stars
Bluegrass music is happy music, no matter how the lyrics read. This CD is just phenomenal. A few of the tracks (Angelina Baker, in particular) are so good that they'll be stuck in your head for hours. And that's a good thing. You'll love this CD! (If you ever get a chance to see Dry Branch live, sell your car, fly cross country, auction off the kids, but do whatever it takes to get a ticket. You won't regret it!)
Description of Hand Hewn
How does one describe the Dry Branch Fire Squad? Honest? Hard-driving? Hilarious? Yes, yes, yes! There are many sides to the Dry Branch Fire Squad, and Hand Hewn shows them all. From roaring bluegrass to solemn spirituals, rugged folk to funky hambone workouts, the Dry Branch Fire Squad take you on an invigorating tour of rural American music.This product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
Though aficionados often draw a line between bluegrass and old-time music, a few contemporary artists persist in beautifully blurring that distinction. Led by mandolinist Ron Thomason, a singer in the Ralph Stanley tradition of quavering soulfulness, the Dry Branch Fire Squad bring a dignified, enduring sweetness to these mostly traditional songs. They keep the arrangements simple and crystalline, focusing on exhilarating harmonies rather than instrumental showboating (though the band gets a chance to stretch out on "Nazeer, Nazeer," a Thomason instrumental romp). The set's only drawback (minor to be sure) is that Suzanne Thomas, one of the finest singers in country music, contributes only one lead vocal. But to hear her sing the line "She never sings cuckoo till the fourth day of July" accompanied only by her frail banjo is to know what pure country music is all about. --Roy Kasten
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