Paul_Thorn-Too_Blessed_To_Be_Stressed-2014-404

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2014-10-16

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Artist: Paul Thorn
Album: Too Blessed To Be Stressed
Bitrate: 246kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Blue Rose Records
Genre: Rock
Size: 80.56 megs
PlayTime: 0h 43min 09sec total
Rip Date: 2014-10-16
Store Date: 2014-10-03

Track List:
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01. Everything's Gonna Be Alright    4:44
02. Too Blessed To Be Stressed       3:53
03. Everybody Needs Somebody         4:29
04. I Backslide On Friday            3:34
05. This Is A Real Goodbye           3:46
06. Mediocrity Is King               3:34
07. Don't Let Nobody Rob You Of      4:22
    Your Joy
08. Get You A Healin'                3:29
09. Old Stray Dogs & Jesus           4:42
10. What Kind Of Roof Do We Live     3:02
    Under
11. No Place I'd Rather Be           3:34

Release Notes:
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Tupelo, Mississippi's Paul Thorn has a knack for synthesis. His father was a
Pentecostal preacher, so Thorn grew up with gospel, but he noticed that, in his
own words, "white people sang gospel like it was country music, and the black
people sang it like it was rhythm & blues," and a mix of the two gospel styles
-- with some gutbucket blues, old-time rock & roll, a sharp pop sense, and a
gift for good old storytelling thrown in -- pretty aptly describes Thorn's own
brand of inspirational roots rock. Like the professional boxer he once was, he
drives his music home with patience, skill, and purpose, putting his own
restless energy at the heart of things. This set of originals, which follows
2012's What the Hell Is Goin' On?, an album of covers, finds Thorn at his best,
and no song here even comes close to being filler. Thorn writes about his native
South and its characters with incisiveness, and that old Saturday night/Sunday
morning split between the secular and the sacred has always been his favorite
theme, the notion that you can mess up, fall from grace, and then still find
some kind of personal redemption is what makes Thorn's blend of gospel country
rock and R&B sound so naturally joyous. There are several wonderful tracks here,
from the opener, the easy-shuffling "Everything's Gonna Be Alright," to "I
Backslide on Friday," a fun and infectious ode to good intentions and
procrastination. Thorn has been touring and recording with this same set of
musicians for two decades, and the tightness and graceful, funky garage rock
versatility of the band shows on the melodic country-pop gem "Don't Let Nobody
Rob You of Your Joy" and "Old Stray Dogs & Jesus," a Tom Waits-like swampy blues
that morphs into a full-blown country honky tonk tune with easy charm. Thorn was
born in the cradle of rock & roll, which is also the cradle for modern gospel,
blues, R&B, soul, and so much else that has gone into American pop music. He
gets it. He gets how it should all go together, and like a boxer with a keen
eye, he hits it solidly here.

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