 | Mad At The MoonDavid Anderson(MTM96001)
Moccasin Telegraph Agency
A review written for the Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange |
| Mad At The MoonDavid Anderson(MTM96001)
Moccasin Telegraph Agency
A review written for the Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange |
David Anderson's debut CD is a collection of 11 original songs that span childhood experiences and memories, other people's stories and love (gone bad). Throughout it is a pleasant effort of mostly laid back music and fairly straight forward folk, country or soft rock arrangements. His voice is clear but he delivers the lyrics in an uninvolved way which is often the case with singer/songwriters.
I enjoyed the melodies and harmony singing as well as the instrumental accompaniment and breaks, but after listening to the CD several times I still couldn't pick out a favorite. It's a personal thing. Obviously David is an experienced musician who has shared stages with John Prine, Tish Hinojosa, Iris DeMent and others and won several awards for his songs; still none of them really grabs me. Sure, there is a limited number of topics, but if someone writes a song one would hope he/she would illuminate it from a new personal angle... A chorus like "working girl trying to survive in a working world, working girl working her life away" doesn't give me any new insights. So what, we all try to survive. It seems he had to write a "p.c." song. All in all nice background music but nothing that captivates me.
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| Mark Swindell - guitars, fiddle, piano, organ, charango, harmony vocal Matt Bohn - bass Peter Grant - dobro, pedal steel, Stella Hawaiian guitar Mike Arnone - drums Larry Tonkin - button accordion | Don Lax - fiddle Jim Oerman - drums Theresa Coyle - harmony vocal Carol Millwood - harmony vocal Mary McCaslin - harmony vocal |
Edited by: Virginia Wagner
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