He Knows What He's Doing
author: frank mazzetti
And you'll like what he's doing. Jeff's songs are always well crafted and intelligent. These songs are emotionally rich and rewarding.
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fantastic
author: Melanie Goldsmith
dad,
I love it.It is fantastic!I love you!
Mel
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Simple and Simply Beautiful
author: Mark Humphreys
Gold knows how to record folk music better than a lot of his more well-known contemporaries. Given the opportunity to produce his own material, he absolutely shines. "The Journey" is an expertly-conceived collection of some of Gold's most diverse songs, sung in a direct, no-nonsense manner in front of some of the most beautiful instrumental arrangements I've ever heard on a folk album.
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Fully mature work from a direct descendant of the Washington Square tradition.
author: Robert Morgan Fisher
On THE JOURNEY, Jeff Gold takes his craft to a new level. The self-reflective tone of this recording is mirrored by the cover art (Jeff's oblique image in the rear of a shiny tanker truck). Gold carefully navigates the well-trodden battlefield of contemporary folk, expertly sidestepping any cliched landmines of preciosity. His muted politics is earnest without being preachy, like the eyes of a submerged crocodile; merely hinting at the anger, refusing to rear its ugly head. Standout tracks include "Should We or Shouldn't We?" (which deserves commercial coverage) and the title song, with its delicious, faint resemblance to Ferron's "Girl on a Road." Jeff Gold remains highly relevant in these unstable times, a palatable antidote to the sloppy anti-intellectualism of the day. He reminds us that his JOURNEY is our journey.
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