Beaches And Bridges

General | Jun 2008

Reviews

Alma Mahler
Reviewed 2008-11-14
A blend of folk, country & americana from San Francisco-based group. Spiced up with some steel guitar, wurlitzer, and many effects. According to the promo material, the album also contains "Fine Folk Traditions, Space Blankets, Noisy Blessings, and a Few History Lessons." They're drawing from all over the place, but tying it all together quite nicely. All tracks listenable, most enjoyable. Try 3, 2, 10, 7. FCC clean.

1) Atmospheric and lovely. Starts up slowly, lots of reverb on vox.
2)* Soulful lullaby w/ heavy kick drum, percussive guitar.
3)** Terrific banjo & harmonies lead this beautiful tune. Great!
4) Catchy blues rock. Steel guitar drives this one.
5) E-bowed electric guitar! Faint Paula Frazier backing vocals!
6)* More atmospheric guitars, a soft tune. Indie with psych yearnings.
7) More accessibly rock tune, driven by percussion.
8) Lovely, dark– lots of banjo.
9)* Slow, meditative, very nice folk with a touch of psych.
10*More upbeat, nice harmonies; straightforward indie folk

Recent airplay

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Puget Sound
Happy HourJan 15, 2009

Charting

2008-11-23 — 2009-01-25
Week EndingAirplays
Jan 25 2
Jan 18 2
Jan 11 2
Dec 28 1
Dec 21 2
Dec 14 1
Dec 7 4
Nov 30 1

Track listing

1. Downstream
2. Ghost Dance
3. Suffering Daughter
4. The Struggle
5. Country Thief
6. Dawn And Delta
7. Puget Sound
8. Gangster Hustler
9. Oregon Trail
10. The Golden Iranian