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Saint Stephen's Dream

by garagecow ensemble

fine-voiced songs worth listening to and contemplating, music for long-distance driving, buddhist-sympathizing modern folk-pop
Genre: Folk: Modern Folk
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1. Party in My Heart
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2. I Never Slept with Allen Ginsberg
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3. Lights
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4. Little Bit O' Light
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5. Rosie Rises Up
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6. Rosie's Lullaby
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7. Saint Stephen's Dream
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8. Stars and Planets ('Laurie's Song')
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9. Pie in the Sky
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10. Green, Green Hills of Earth
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11. Paradise Bar
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12. Better Day
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13. Godless Appalachian Haiku
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14. Next Country Over
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ABOUT THIS ALBUM


Album Notes
GARAGECOW ENSEMBLE performs the original music of singer-songwriter Douglas Imbrogno of West Virginia. The ensemble's first recording, 'Saint Stephen's Dream,' is both a record to be enjoyed by itself and the soundtrack to a two-act piece of performance theater of the same title. The well-crafted, lyrically intriguing songs are brought to life with both elaborate and elegantly simple production values - modern folk-pop with electronica and folk-rock flourishes. An 'Appalachian Beck,' the sound has been described.

SELECT MUSICIANS JOIN IN on electronic keyboard, electric and acoustic guitars, dulcimer, cello, flute, mandolin, drumkit and hand drum. "What makes this album a success," writes a reviewer in the alternative arts magazine Graffiti, "is Imbrogno's focus on his strength: gentle, well-sung folk-pop with an unabashed Celestial Seasonings bent. The Joni Mitchell-esque 'Green, Green Hills of Earth' and the Buddhist-in-England meditation on the title track... may invite charges of retro-hippieism, but are simply lovely songs nonetheless... Imbrogno's finest moment occurs on 'I Never Slept with Allen Ginsberg,' which reminisces about an evening around the campfire with the late Beat godfather and makes some clever points about ambition and celebrity: 'With just a single gesture I could maybe share his bed/But it's not his body that I want, but what's inside his head...'"

THESE ARE SONGS worth repeated listens. That's not only because of their intriguing, multi-instrumental and multi-vocal treatments, but because of lyrics worth pondering and savoring. In a world rife with throwaway lines, easy rhymes and off-the-shelf sentiment, "Saint Stephen's Dream" is full of deeply felt, richly delivered songs that reveal new nuances after each listen.


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Teresa Zientarski

As your loving Aunt, I'm definitely prejudiced
An expression of the heart, felt by the soul.

Barrelhouse Bonni

Catchy,thoughtful tunes
Doug'scleverness and thoughtfulness come through in the lyrics of all these songs. He also projects a different mood with each song,with his clear voice,skillful acoustic guitar and a few kinky sound effects from his friends. The Pie song,a political satire, is catchy enough to get your kids to sing along; the memorial songs "Green Green Hills of Earth" and "Dance away to a better day" can be played on the occasion of the passing of a loved one. The whole album manages to be pleasant and provocative at the sametime.