Grips, Bites and oh so Tight !
author: Greg Richardson
If you like CD's that get better as you progress through each song, then this is for you. Apart from enjoying each song on its own merits, the whole package is one that stays in the front of your memory. The musicianship, song writing and production is quality thru and thru. My fav's are Out Of Dodge, Stuck,and The Sweetness. The other tracks come a very close second :) Overall = Up there with anything I've ever heard in this genre. Thanks Mr Manor !
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Don't miss this one
author: Michael McCrickard
This guy can do it all, it's amazing. Plays piano and guitar, sings, writes, arranges, engineers, produces. And does it all with very talented, gutsy rootsy musicians. He's one of those artists in whom you can hear so many different influences at the same time that it gets dizzying. Springsteen, Petty, Dylan, The Beatles, 90's alternative, old-time gospel, etc. He's one of the few I know of who has a real emotional depth in his work and a real sense of humor, too. Bob has an exceptional gift for melody, as you will hear throughout on here. And this is an astonishingly GOOD sounding record, on top of it all.
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What "O' Brother Where Art Thou" did for old time country
author: TB
Bob Manor and The Getaway Drivers do for Rock Americana. The infectious toe tapp'n songs like "why Shouldn't I?" and heartfelt pieces like "nobody but you" bring back that old Americana like dusty bakc roads brings back the simpler days of our way of life in rural America. So pull up a chair and loosen those vocal chords and enjoy, Bob Manor and The Getaway Drivers.
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hAUNTING AND MASTERFUL SONGWRITING EXPANDING THE BOUNDRIES OF ALTERNATIVE COUNTR
author: MATT BORCZON
The ghost of yesterday is the best album I have heard all year bar none. If Springsteen had lived his life amoung the everyday men and women he writes about he might do it as convincingly as Bob Manor does. From the opening song wrecking ball Bob Manor brings a sharp incisive honesty to his music that will make you think and a musicianship that will keep your foot tapping the whole way through. Amoung my favorite songs are River runs dry and the sweetness of life and the song sun beats down is a perfect example of a song that will surely be sung by people 200 years from now. This album is a real treasure to anyone who loves the americana genre of music. Truely one of the best cds I have ever heard from any artist working in this style of music. Buy it you will not be dissapointed.
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