Greg Brown - Live One
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Artist: Greg BrownEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1995-10-17
Music Label: Red House
Soundtracks:
- Just By Myself
- Billy From The Hills
- Boomtown
- Spring Wind
- Laughing River
- You Drive Me Crazy
- Canned Goods
- I Don't Want To Have A Nice Day
- Brand New '64 Dodge
- 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
- One More Goodnight Kiss
- Moondance
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Music Review: Looking For The Heartland
Rating: 4 Stars
Greg Brown is a particular kind of folk singer who before I listened to his "Greg Brown Live" album I had not really paid attention to since the days of my early youth when I listened intently to Woody Guthrie whose songs were seemingly forged from the very heart of Americana. As a child of the urban folk revival of the 1960's I got caught up more in the overt political message songs provided by the likes of Bob Dylan or Phil Ochs. Greg has come out of the heartland of America like Woody in a fury to write and sing his tales of love, remembrance, tragedy, desperation and, on occasion, just pure whimsy.
Those songs evoke, under more modern conditions to be sure, the days gone by when the community spirit of small town life meant something. A strong bass voice grainy with the trials and tribulations of life lend authenticity to his words, as does strong guitar playing when necessary. Needless to say the variety of topics covered in his songs speak for themselves from Grandma's food cellars to vanishing Iowa family farms to sweaty nights of lovemaking entwined with the up and down battles of love and, of course, the ubiquitous bouts of fishing.
Outstanding here are "Billy From The Hills" attribute to his father, "Boomtown" a quasi-political song about turning the American Mountain West into the same kind of upscale tourist trap/strip mall as we find on the coasts and the inevitable paean to love's twists and turns in "You Drive Me Crazy". I want to pay special attention to 1952 Vincent Black Lightning the semi-tragic story of outlaw motorcycle love. I would argue that this is one of the great modern love songs. If you grew up in the 1950's and early 1960's you are familiar with this theme in the pop music genre. Christ, you could not get away from the theme of a dying young lover who passed away in every conceivable manner, although car wrecks seemed to have been the most popular way.
Here Brown turns this whole concept around in his tribute to the bike and to the outlaw who ultimately is redeemed by giving the keys to his cherished bike to his Red Molly. If that is not modern love then nothing is. All to his steady guitar beat that gives one the feeling of a motorcycle going through its gears. I have since found out, and correct me if I am wrong, that Greg did not write this song. Although I will bet many a dollar that he wishes that he had. Moreover, this is exactly his kind of song and his performance makes it his own. Listen on.
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