ARTiST: Stephen Sebastian
ALBUM: Goodbye Good Intentions
BiTRATE: 193kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: CD Baby
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 64.45 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 45min 36sec total
RiP DATE: 2009-06-19
STORE DATE: 2009-06-10
Track List:
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01. Look Both Ways 3:09
02. I Wasn't Made That Way 3:45
03. No Time for the Weary 4:01
04. Bluebird 4:36
05. Movin' On 3:05
06. Goodbye Good Intentions 3:35
07. The Bridge 5:45
08. Make You a Star 4:09
09. Maybe I Was Wrong 3:56
10. Where She Goes 2:47
11. I Lost You Before 6:48
Release Notes:
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Steve Sebastian isn't going mad. Seriously. Granted, musical comparisons to
eccentric influences like Ryan Adams, Tom Petty, and Elliott Smith abound. But
Steve Sebastian is a young college graduate from Cleveland, Ohio who drives to
work, eats home-cooked meals, walks his dog, attends church, and tries to call
his parents every couple of weeks. Still, he's not strictly typical, either. His
music might best fit into a cozy but lonesome middle ground between the mundane
and the unorthodox, between the old and the new, tradition and rebellion. It's
like the blues as seen in a funhouse mirror, or all of rock and roll history
thrown into a blender and played in reverse, a twisting kaleidoscope of five
decades worth of guitar-based pop music. Riffs and solos give way to twang and
shuffle in a tag-team match of alt-country haze and classic rock immediacy,
accented all the while by lyrics equally forceful and vulnerable, both visceral
and broken. Rightly enough, his voice actually keeps up with the shape-shifting
act. He growls like Tom Waits, croons like Ryan Adams, whispers like Thom Yorke,
and bellows like The Boss. Equipped as such, he follows the blues around to just
about anywhere it's made it's home in the past, from the delta to the honky tonk
to the arena and all in between. Yet his vagabond sound is rooted firmly in the
bright, not-too-distant future. Call him an observant scholar of the past or a
bold poet of years to come, or maybe just a cool guy who might as well be your
next door neighbor, but it's worth the trouble to listen to the evidence and
decide for yourself. -Chris Leonard