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Separately, Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott have made some of the most creative bluegrass albums of the past five years. Together, these two top practitioners of bluegrass and mountain music, display all the camaraderie and empathy you'd expectfrom old friends and bandmates. Cut in Scott's Nashville living room, this acoustic collaboration mixes sharp-witted originals with two Hank Williams numbers (one a cappella) and a couple of traditional tunes (including a stunning gospel performance on Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burnin'). Scott's "Long Time Gone", a playful slap at contemporary country, eventually was reworked by the Dixie Chicks. The instrumental "The Second Mouse" was nominated for a Grammy. Real Time explores the strongest human emotions - a father's crazed grief, a teen's sexual initiation, a lover caught between heaven and hell - in a pastiche of powerful writing, passionate vocals, and masterful picking. Goose-bumpy good.
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Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott are wonderful songwriters and players. One expects no less from them, yet thrilling to hear them deliver, as they always do. And to the person who wrote the notes above... a "pastiche of powerful writing..."? Pastiche??! Check the dictionary, there, bub. Read more...
tim o'brien has always been one of my favorites;these guys together make some great duets.Really enjoyed the cd. Read more...
Tim and Darrell are brilliant songsters, Real Time transcendes genre classification showing all the qualities of a classic album. Read more...
an album that does not have to grow on you for you to know it and love it. it's in your top 5 fave list from your first listen. Read more...