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This CD features the collision of folk, rock, blues, jazz, and bluegrass. We've been playing this unique style for a while, and think it's time to let you-all in on it. So be prepared to hear a sax section with your Dylan - clarinet and banjo with your Dead - and dueling sax and banjo on Kinky Friedman. Yes, horns can play bluegrass and folk, we've just never gotten the chance before!
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It's easy for folk devotees to fall into cliche and complacency; nothing proves it like hearing a reverent album that avoids those traps, as this one does. Krohmer's clarinet and sax swirls lend body to Steve Cooley's restrained flat-picking, which adds texture to Gage's salty, full-bodied vocals--this isn't billed as a band project, but these non-star dynamics make the album work. Krohmer contributes the best of the three originals, a lullaby for his daughter. ...the John Prine and Kinky Friedman songs are plenty spry, not to mention Michael Smith's standard-to-be "Spoon River". Read more...