Excellent cd! I especially enjoyed Cannibal, Your Laughter It's Gone and Marti Lauther Blues. This cd is a must have touching on many genres. Superb beginning to end!
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Essentially, the project of songwriter Bill LaVoie and a collective of musicians and friends, LaVoie delivers a collection of 12 wonderfully rendered songs that demonstrates that, in spite of what the 'popular airways' in music might betray, there is still talent out in the Big World of sound.  

One standout, the vivid "Another Sure Thing," hits this listener as the absolutely perfect creative expression of sentiment, regret, and the unfortunate accidents of time. In "Sure Thing," LaVoie presents a first person narrative about the squandered fortunes of the singer's father, culminating in the narrator gaining the same propensity for poor financial performance later in life like his Father.  "I was raised on credit cards/I was raised in debt/ while daddy hit the dog track/to place another bet/with a small chunk of tuition/in his money clip/safely invested/in another canine tip/ Another Sure Thing."  

Musically, the songs are best described as an eclectic mix of Americana and roots.  The instrumentation is diverse, as are the arrangements--guest musicians skillfully play bass, drums, banjo, piano, Hammond organ, harmonica and yes, even a saw!  The performances carefully inform the lyrical structure of the songs without at once dominating them--good thing, because these songs are about ideas, and the lyrical interplay to communicate these ideas.  One might get the idea that there is diminishing talent in the world-what with Fox and their ilk desperately searching for 'idols'.  Thankfully, it appears to not be the case.  Dump your dollars on this self produced and financed CD, and know that you are supporting a talent immeasurably more worthy than many.
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Wow!  this is a great CD.  I listen to it all the time.  I look forward to hearing more songs from cornmash in the future.
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I love the CD.  It's always in my car.  I will never think of an oreo the same.  Can't wait for the next CD to come out.
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