Country : USA
Year : 2010
Label : Suicide Squeeze
Genre : Folk Rock; Bluegrass; Country Rock; Americana
Web Site : Cotton Jones Web Site
This album is perfect for evening of contemplation in front of the grate, or when you're out on the porch with a guitar in hand, for example. And dream on to see the ultimate sunset, jingled his slight, and around you fireflies dancing its night dance. And in my head burst stories and pictures of past times and old habits. Music is in the spirit of American folk rock, bluegrass traditions. Mellow songs about nature, sun, love, water, and to travel the path to happiness in nature, having love and sun. Cotton Jones are able to capture the spirit of days gone by.
The opening album "Sail Of The Silver Morning" is a song about how the morning came from a sunbeam. The song is bluegrass, rock in mid tempo. The next "Somehow To Keep It Going" is deep folk rock tune, which backed by bass and keyboards became extremely animated, and as it sings: "Come on baby let the river roll on", and, if you let it be conquer this melody, you'll feel closer to folk rock music in it's pure like a mountain water species.
It is noteworthy often use the words river and sun. If this can be a conception, the Cotton Jones maintain it and manage to create a feeling in me for mountain rivers and sun.
"Glorylight And Christie" has a nice female vocals in the beginning, and of the second minute became dancing in spirit and dances of the 50's. I imagine the happy couples in the whirl of dance. The song ends with violin, inexplicably, reminding me of silent film cinema.
"Man Climbs Out Of The Winter" is a hymn to the sunsets on the prairie. Slow folk rock, country with lazy strumming on the guitar. And just as tired horse ridden by a middle-aged cowboy with afterburning cigarette in his mouth and tired look, the song is slow. But make a feeling of serenity, warmth and old times gone by. And as I started with metaphors with horses and cowboys, cowboy spurs same horse in the trot and going into "Song In Numbers", which is fast-paced folk rock with a tenor vocal, as that record drown-out from the 60's. Returns back in time, and my pictures come up at a party with dancing, ladies in long skirts and broad-hat, men in suits and cylinders, rejoicing, jumping. Generally happy with the americana style withrhythm guitar and mood in the vocals.
Sixth two-minute interlude "Soft Mountain Shake" with vocals that all the time repeated a: "Oo, oo", and drum measured marches, like a song about climbing to the top of the mountain, but also recreation.
"Place At The End" is a typical folk rock song, which Cotton Jones showed in the album until now that know how to play well. The word water is present here and the song is mid-tempo idyl, make sense of white clouds and guitars in hands and cohesion.
"More Songs For Margaret" is a true folk rock trip in this album. Slow and irrigation, by measuring the stroke with tambourine and vocals telling that "the morning always comes". Individual sporadic guitar inclusions with a few notes, note the minutes away from the appearance of that same morning.
In "Goethe Nayburs" have a sample from the sound of falling coins, something like that profits from poker machines. The mood is dance, foxtrot, if the hero is prepared to spend this profits.
Turn in "Dream On Columbia Street" is to bossa nova, latino rock or as some say it - americana. Water again is a theme here, there are flowers along the way, but the vocals are between country and folk rock, no longer feeling towards the 50's, more modern sounding, despite that piano effects sound like drown-out from the 50's. The album ends with bluegrass, folk rock idyl "No Things I Need (Like Some Time)" in which male and female vocals are cohesive and complementary picture of empathy. Gospel keyboards, folk rock chords and history that humans down from the mountain areas with clean rivers, down to the city, "going downtown". Shortly sad ends the album. So it felt. But can't always have people stay in the mountains, the next album can tell stories about the city. Are headed that way, judging by this composition. Leaving aside those samples thoughts, the album is nice and shows another side of American folk rock music. That folk rock music, which is typical of past years and mores, the album easily carried out there in time. The music says nothing new, and certainly I will not hear too much, but inside stories made me feel far from the stress of everyday life.
If you like folk rock with country rock, bluegrass flavor, and tales of rivers, nature, sun, here you will find places where you can "stop" and "take away" back in time. Recommended for accompaniment of mountain hiking, and when then you go down to the city.
