well I just made my choice of 2006... Eric Bachmann: To The Races

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Its been a good, no, a very good year for music and I have found it very difficult to pick one out, wanting to list every bloody thing I've bought but this morning, sitting out on the deck with coffee and cake, I just can't go past this release.
What does it sound like?
Well, its very simple music; acoustic guitar, an occasional violin melody, a little sustained keyboard aching quietly in the background, a harmony here, a touch of harmonica there. The simple elegance of Jesse Winchester and the intimacy of what Springsteen's demos for The River might have sounded like or maybe Nebraska.
Folkie without being folksie.
The first song reminds me of Ronnie Lane's The Poacher, other times the delivery has a little of Dylan, but this is just to give you an idea of where it lies, not what its trying to be.
The songs are of travel and escape, to find something more, better; of longing and a sense of something missing.
I came upon a wounded beast
She was lying in the sand
Her heart held in her hand
How do you pretend to try
To save a thing that's meaning to die
Do you try or walk on by
So Carrboro woman, won't you walk with me
There's some place I have to go
And I don't want to go alone
And if what you want ain't where I'll be
Then my love I'll understand
You ain't my woman
And woman, I am not your man
This is a beautiful record and one which seems to reveal more each time you forget about it and rediscover it on the shelf.

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Topic - well I just made my choice of 2006... Eric Bachmann: To The Races - dave c 15:29:10 12/24/06 (0)

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