| Various Artists / Greetings From Area Code 207 #5 |
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| Album: | Greetings From Area Code 207 #5 | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Oct 2005 | |
| Label: | Cornmeal Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-01-29 | Pull Date: | 2006-04-02 |
| Week Ending: | Feb 5 |
| Airplays: | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 06, 2007: | Anywhere Out Of The World So Far Gone | 3. | Feb 01, 2006: | Brownian Motion Air | |
| 2. | Feb 04, 2006: | Biff Bang Pow Twistin' | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2006-01-23 | ||
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A compilation of artists that seems to want to please fans of the ilk of Bonnie Raitt, Tom Petty, Wilco, and Springsteen judging by the tracks they chose to start with. Singer songwriter folk, roots rock centered mostly, the best songs come at about track 7 where you find some great café balladeers and good alt.country/country type stuff. This is a cd released by a Portland area community radio station that smacks of AAA, kfog but contains serious gems (see highlights below). Second CD has live tracks recorded in-studio by some national acts but should be avoided like the plague. Greetings from Area Code 207 1) nick lowe’ish guitar pop 2) acoustic folk rock 3) r&b flavored funky rock, female vocs 4) upbeat roots rock, a la Tom Petty 5) mid paced reflective roots ballad rock 6) roots rock, female vocs, white girl blues 7) café acoustic guitar/vocals song, honest feel 8) traditional rootsy r&b garage, late 50’s race music, good shit 9) quite adept and pleasant alt.country in the spirit of good wilco et al 10) folk acoustic ballad storytelling, western feel 11) wow, this is some seriously beautiful stuff: a slow Low-like plod and male/female voc duel vocs, eerie synth tone under acoustic guitar arpeggios (why didn’t they make this the first track?!) 12) Country Western song, traditional feel from the school of George Jones and Buck Owens 13) rootsy feel, dark, Slim Cessna or Waits feel 14) mountain music, good Appalachian front porch ballad 15) dark exotic western tango feel with slow part in middle 16) western roots rock version of Beatles classic 17) female folkie 18) new country feel 19) rootsy feeling pop rock 20) “blues” rock bar-band feel with the Hammond etc 20) slow-core mopey feel, nice non-slick subdued production Greetings from “Studio Z” 1) solo folk 2) folksy with piano 3) piano+vocs, icky vocals 4) yikes, these vocals couldn’t be any more ass-kissing if they tried 5) upbeat acoustic 6) I aint buying these vocals either 7) Barenaked Ladies, upbeat bluegrassy feel, yawn 8) folk, yawn 9) Cowboy Junkies: folk ballad, quite pretty acoustic guitar+vocals, okay play this one if you must as its really good | ||
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