Album Notes

"James's writing truly upholds everything good, right and true about American Roots music. Like Kristofferson, Prine, Goodman and Zevon, James Curley is a visionary way ahead of today's mainstream songwriters." Timothy Edward Jones - journalist and author of CountryConversation www.TEJBooks.com About The CD 'Tom's Cafe' shows off James Curley's penchant for writing lyrically agile and sonically excellent "Cosmic Cowboy Country Blues Folk Music." The songs sidestep standard country/folk genre cliche and offer literate lyrics wrapped in familiar and engaging American musical packaging. Purposely eschewing the hyper-sanitized sonic style of modern pop music, these songs feature spare arrangements of acoustic and electric guitars, piano and keyboards, percussion, harmonica, accordion, acoustic and electric bass, Dobro and pedal steel guitar. James' vocals are supported on most tracks with lush harmonies by Nancy Walker and Sue Demel, two of the most original and powerful singers in contemporary American Roots music. The CD's overall character is the work of Larry Clyman, an award winning guitarist, arranger and producer. Information on appearances, etc. can be found at www.myspace.com/jamesfcurley James Curley is a singer, songwriter, father, husband, sibling, entrepreneur, impresario, tall-tale teller, Celtic descendant, lapsed Catholic, neo-Buddhist, post modern persona housed in the great Prairie Metropolis on the shores of Lake Michigan. Fond of stews, James prefers an eclectic range of subjects for songs with the exception of broken hearts and unrequited love, which are already covered in vast quantity and diversity by virtually every other songwriter.