Artist: The Warren Hood Band
Album: The Warren Hood Band
Bitrate: 244kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Red Parlor Records
Genre: Rock
Size: 81.48 megs
PlayTime: 0h 44min 23sec total
Rip Date: 2013-08-13
Store Date: 2013-06-04
Track List:
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01. Alright 3:58
02. You've Got It Easy 5:24
03. Pear Blossom Highway 3:49
04. Where Have You Gone 4:43
05. The More I See You 2:49
06. Songbird 4:25
07. Take Me By The Hand 4:19
08. Motorcity Man 3:24
09. Last One To Know 2:59
10. This River 4:44
11. What Everybody Wants 3:49
Release Notes:
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The cream always rises to the top, and there are young performers out there who
will find their audience [such as] Warren Hood, a terrific songwriter and
singer. --Lyle Lovett
THE WARREN HOOD BAND album is mostly a feel-good collection of songs with
old-time, rootsy atmospheres that never sound dated and manage to stay fresh.
Hood began playing fiddle when he was 11, won top honors at the Berklee School
of Music, and has recorded with the likes of Lyle Lovett, Joan Osborne, Emmylou
Harris, Elvis Costello, Susan tedeschi, Gillian Welch, Alejandro Escovedo, and
plenty more. He's also the son of beloved Austin legend Champ Hood.
Here, he teams up with Emily Gimble to do some of his own songs, one of his
dad's, one of Walter Hyatt's and several co-writes with friends Susanne Choffel,
Gwil Owen, Willie Pipkin, and James Hyland.
Songbird, one of the co-writes with Pipkin, is perhaps the highlight. It's a
bouncy, upbeat, metaphorical song about a lonely man asking why the little
songbird loves to sing and and fly and lamenting, ever since he's been alone,
the whistle of the evening train.
Charlie Sexton produced, added piano, electric and acoustic guitars, 12-string
guitar, banjo, percussion, and background vocals. Pipkin played lead guitar.
Nate Rowe bass, J.J. Johnson and Dony Wynn drums, and Lloyd Maines pedal steel.
Gimble, who has her own family pedigree, coming from the Johnny Gimble clan,
added-various keyboards and background vocalsas well as lead vocals on three of
the songs, sound a little lost in the production on Pear Blossom Highway but
brings a nice Norah Jones-ish sound to Take Me By the Hand and Where Have You
Gone. --Tom Geddie of Buddy Magazine
Hood has style to burn, with a knack for composing songs as ageless as they are
pleasing to hear. --Margaret Moser of The Austin Chronicle