Between The Bridges

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Sloan stake out their usual turf--a piece of emotional land somewhere on the border of knowingness and bemusement--on Between the Bridges. Their most ambitious yet, the album cleverly strings one track into the next while marshaling a full complement of early-'70s pop-rock influences (Todd Rundgren, Badfinger). The result is as creamy ("Don't You Believe a Word") and cutting ("Friendship") at times as Rumours; for good measure, there's the tear-away tour de force "Sensory Deprivation" and the echoes of Imagine that open "The N.S." In an age where few bands make it this far--Bridges is their sixth long-player, counting 1998's live 4 Nights at the Palais Royale--Sloan reaffirm their power with each new release. With any luck, this one will make more listeners outside their Canadian homeland aware of that fact. --Rickey Wright

Product Description
1999 release from Canadian power pop act. A typically firstrate Sloan release, well crafted songs, perfect harmonies and clever lyrics. Digipak. (Murder Records)

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Between The Bridges

Average customer rating: Beautiful Lyrics The Greatest Living American Singer Songwriter Solid, gritty, and a good listen My new favorite CD for studying! An Instant Classic

Bittertown Lori McKenna Manufacturer: Signature Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Pieces of Me Paper Wings & Halo Fireflies Geronimo Impossible Dream ASIN: B0001Z4PGE Release Date: 2004-05-11

Tracks:

1. Bible Song
2. Mr. Sunshine
3. One Man
4. Pour
5. Lone Star
6. Stealing Kisses
7. If You Ask
8. Monday Afternoon
9. The Ledge
10. My Sweetheart
11. Cowardly Lion
12. Silver Bus
13. One Kiss Goodnight

Album Description

This songwriter and mother of four, who lives a stones throw from the town she grew up in, doesn't fit into any stereotype. She's garnered comparisons to Lucinda Williams, Bruce Springsteen, Dashboard Confessional, and Roseanne Cash. Her songs, as solid as Georgia oak, are played and sung with an emotional grit under the nails that comes from digging in life's mundane and less illuminated holes. These songs grab you with Lori's signature strident, soulful, and unapologetic vocals sharing earnest observations and stories of growing up and growing old, of loves and losses, winners and losers, guns and god, and drinkers and dreamers in a town that is resting uncomfortably between its blue collar roots and modern suburbia. Incapable of artifice, Lori McKenna speaks of the bitter and the sweet, but doesn't simply write songs, she documents her life, and in turn ours, in word and melody. Meet Lori McKenna and welcome to Bittertown

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful Lyrics.......2006-11-22

I went out and purchased Lori McKenna's 'Bittertown' last year after hearing songs she wrote on Faith Hill's 'Fireflies'. This is an incredible album, definitely one of the best that I bought in 2005. She has an interesting voice and beautiful lyrics, particularly on "Bible Song", "Stealing Kisses", "The Ledge" and "Cowardly Lion". While Faith Hill (on "Stealing Kisses" and "If You Ask", etc.) and Sara Evans (on "Bible Song") sing McKenna's songs very well on their latest albums, there's no comparison to the original, though Hill does a great job on 'Fireflies'. McKenna's voice is not at all over the top or showy and it fits the songs she sings in a very pure and simple way. I would highly recommend this album, and others by this artist, to anyone.

The Greatest Living American Singer Songwriter.......2006-06-04

And I say this based on hearing a single song ("Pour") from from a Putumayo World Music collection "American Folk". On that basis, I am going to buy the album, and I hope you will too, she truly deserves it. Emotions are conveyed intimately and harrowingly with a warm and very beautifully real voice, with her special twist and modulation. Lyrics are original, raw, and sometimes surprising with an insight that becomes much more apparent when you hear her sing: "In the depths of the deepest sea, there is a blue as blue as me, where a quiet symphony plays for the lonley, I could just let it all go, sink down to the world below, where i dont breathe but I dont know cause I am breathless" (and then follows a wonderful musical follow up which greatly amplifies the feelings). The music is beautiful, very appropriate, and carefully crafted.

Solid, gritty, and a good listen.......2006-03-30

This is my first Lori McKenna album. While a sample of her songs and the comparisons got my attention, I'd say she compares to herself. She's got a stepped up-bluegrass kind of sound and the gritty, solid voice that made many of country's greats who they are. "Bittertown" is hard to classify and even harder to get out of your CD player. Give it a listen, I think you'll agree Lori's someone whose words are worth hearing.

My new favorite CD for studying!.......2006-01-29

I LOVE this CD. I listen to it often while studying - the album flows wonderfully...I find it hard to compare to anyone else, though I am a big fan of Alison Krauss, the Wailin Jennys, and the like, if that tells you anything.

Buy it! You won't be sorry!

An Instant Classic.......2006-01-05

Lori McKenna has a grit to her lyrics and vocals that harken back to the greats of country like Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard. She also has the sort of lyrical imagery, roughshod vocals and sad songs that beg to be compared to Lucinda Williams. She is all this and more.
The album opens strongly with the driving desperation of small town escape that is "Bible Song," which still manages to pause briefly to show us a moment of her offbeat view of the world when she pauses in the middle of describing her a cousins's suicide to ponder "and how does she explain to those kids about the sorry thing Daddy did." "Stealing Kisses" plays like a prequel to John Prines classic "Angel From Montgomery." However, possibly the strongest moment on the cd is the spectrum spanning tales of addiction "If You Ask" and "Monday Afternoon." Lest you think all is gloom and doom however, McKenna proves she can do the lighter end of the register, with the confectiony sweet "Mr. Sunshine." The only weak note is the immature "Lone Star" but it is lyrically spot on and McKenna takes such relish in advising her old classmate "tell the girls in the beer line/that you're an old, good friend of mine" that it ranks, at worst, as a guitly pleasure.
Lori McKenna is one of the best voices to come on the scene in a long time--both as a singer and a writer.

Average customer rating: Quite simply one of the best albums I own concept album? Sloan are originally Canadian, like moi :) The story of Sloan's career A Must Have!

Between The Bridges Sloan Manufacturer: Murder Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Jangle Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Pretty Together Action Pact One Chord to Another Twice Removed Navy Blues ASIN: B00000K08V Release Date: 1999-09-21

Tracks:

1. N.S.
2. So Beyond Me
3. Don't You Believe a Word
4. Friendship
5. Sensory Deprivation
6. All by Ourselves
7. Long Time Coming
8. Waiting for Slow Songs
9. Losing California
10. Marquee and the Moon
11. Take Good Care of the Poor Boy
12. Delivering Maybes

Amazon.com

Sloan stake out their usual turf--a piece of emotional land somewhere on the border of knowingness and bemusement--on Between the Bridges. Their most ambitious yet, the album cleverly strings one track into the next while marshaling a full complement of early-'70s pop-rock influences (Todd Rundgren, Badfinger). The result is as creamy ("Don't You Believe a Word") and cutting ("Friendship") at times as Rumours; for good measure, there's the tear-away tour de force "Sensory Deprivation" and the echoes of Imagine that open "The N.S." In an age where few bands make it this far--Bridges is their sixth long-player, counting 1998's live 4 Nights at the Palais Royale--Sloan reaffirm their power with each new release. With any luck, this one will make more listeners outside their Canadian homeland aware of that fact. --Rickey Wright

Album Description

1999 release from Canadian power pop act. A typically firstrate Sloan release, well crafted songs, perfect harmonies and clever lyrics. Digipak. (Murder Records)

Customer Reviews:

Quite simply one of the best albums I own.......2005-06-03

I don't know that much about Sloan (other than what can be gleaned at Amazon.com) but this is a stunningly good album. Not a stinker in the dozen songs. Kind of 70s rock with a contemporary sensibility. Good vocals, crunchy guitars, electric pianos, catchy tunes. I have trouble thinking of individual songs on this disc, 'cause they all fit together so well. Seriously, my favorite is probably Marquee and the Moon, or it's Take Good Care of the Poor Boy, or its Delivering Maybes, because the album finishes so strongly, but any one of the tracks could be a favorite. Buy it.

concept album? .......2004-07-29

This is different than any other sloan album, the album stars with 3 very mellow songs, which makes you wonder, is this how its gonna be? But "friendship" kicks and you hear sloan doing what they do best, ROCK(that was cheesy). All of the songs flow into eachother extremely well.
Key tracks: N.S, friendship, sensory deprivation, losing california, take good care of the poor boy
GREAT ALBUM, GREAT BAND

Sloan are originally Canadian, like moi :).......2004-04-27

Losing California is an addictive song, I've listened to it more times than I care to admit! Sloan is one of those bands deeply influenced by classic rock from the 60's and 70's, and they do that style VERY well. They also have the Beatles hair goin' on. :)

David Rehak
author of "A Young Girl's Crimes"

The story of Sloan's career.......2003-07-29

I hate to say this but even many 'hardcore' Sloan fans dismiss this record. Why I cannot imagine. It is the perfect analagy for their career. It's between the pop of Navy Blues and the rock of Pretty Together. This is Sloan's 2nd most solid album. Their is growth and maturity oozing from this record with out boring us to death.
The NS is a classic Andrew song with even more clever humor and a bit more pop than what he normally delivers
The Marquee and the moon is Chris Murphys "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".. on this album and Pretty Together Chris has really grown up and shown some vunerability as well.
Losing California is a great ROCK song with pop singability as it gets stuck in your heard, all day.. it's fantastic.
Waiting for Slow Songs is another great one by Jay that really makes you feel , he's a master at expressing his personal insecurity which we then take on as our own, too.

There has been alot of talk about "california" albums lately and I think this is a great one if that is your cup o' tea. It's a tiny bit beach boys, BUT definetly ALL SLOAN!

A Must Have!.......2003-07-02

This is a great CD for any music fan and a must-have for any fan of Sloan. The great songs just keep on coming from beginning to end. The whole CD just seems to flow with one track literally blending into the next. This is a softer smoother sounding album than their "One Chord to Another" or "Smeared" albums. That's not to say though, that the album doesn't have some great rock hits. "Sensory Deprivation" and "Losing California" are a couple of great examples of this. The second track "So Beyond Me" is the best song I've ever heard to date. It is one of the few albums I own that I don't have even the slightest urge to hit the "next track" button on my CD player. Buy this album... you'll be glad you did.

Average customer rating:

Our World Manufacturer: Cone Eleven ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000050ZOJ Release Date: 2000-09-25

Tracks:

1. See How the Night Grows Cold
2. Angels Caught in the Moon
3. Little Girl and Little Boy
4. The Moon is Bright
5. Train
6. Watashi no Sekai
7. Hearts Can't Carry
8. Fall Away
9. Understanding Love
10. (bonus track, not listed on CD) Lullaby

Album Description

The first release of the Los Angeles-based duo The FloatingHouse, "Our World" combines exquisite vocals, thoughtful lyrics, and haunting, lilting melodies. Although instrumentation varies from lush to minimal, an intimacy with the listener is always maintained.

Average customer rating:

Brand New Old Time Music Adie Grey Manufacturer: Hey Baby! Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Grandpa's Advice ...how to find a rainbow ASIN: B00005NIW7 Release Date: 1994-02-10

Tracks:

1. I May Be Down (But I Ain't Done)
2. Mr. Roy
3. Underneath the Tennessee Moon
4. On The South Side of Town
5. I'll Go Where You Go
6. Hurricane's Comin'
7. Better With Time
8. That Good Ol' Boy
9. I Got You Now
10. When I'm in Dixie
11. A Better Way

Album Description

"With echoes as old as the Carter Family and as fresh as any of the new traditional country, "Brand New Old Time Music" is exactly what its title implies, and it is a pure joy. The album's 12 songs... are intelligent, witty and touching, and need no more instrumental embellishment than simple, lovely acoustic settings. Grey's voice has a bluesy edge somewhat reminiscent of Maria Muldaur, with a gentle, angelic quality that harkens to early Dolly Parton. She also keeps some pretty hip company... Wynonna Judd sings harmony with Grey on two songs, and Ranger Doug of Riders in the Sky joins her on another. John Hartford lends his distinctive banjo to the effort, and multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire Albert Lee plays mandolin and guitar. All turn in fine performances , and their names surely strengthen her resume, but Grey's talent stands squarely on it's own."

Gordon Ely, Richmond - Times-Dispatc

Average customer rating: An absolute joy from start to finish

Between the Bridges Sloan Manufacturer: Koch Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Jangle Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CCD0G2 Release Date: 2006-01-10

Tracks:

1. The N.S.
2. So Beyond Me
3. Don't You Believe A Word
4. Friendship
5. Sensory Deprivation
6. All By Ourselves
7. A Long Time Coming
8. Waiting For Slow Songs
9. Losing California
10. The Marquee And The Moon
11. Take Good Care Of The Poor Boy
12. Delivering Maybes

Customer Reviews:

An absolute joy from start to finish.......2007-02-27

Sloan come from Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada. The band consists of four highly talented singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists. I challenge anyone to name me a band out there since the Beatles who have that level of diversity. This album is a pleasure from start to finish. The songs run into one another. It's the first time that Sloan have done this on an album. It gives the album a coherence. That is not to say though that the songs are all similar. They are definitely not. The songs are as different from one another as is possible. My personal favourites are 'Don't Believe A Word' by Jay Ferguson and 'Friendship' by Patrick Pentland. All of the songs are outstanding. This album is a must for fans of Todd Rundgren, Beatles, Raspberries, 10cc and other power pop outfits.

Average customer rating: To This Day ~Chapter 1: Between Bridges~

Chapter 1: Between the Bridges To This Day Manufacturer: Red Int / Red Ink ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Lift The Curse This Is Our Revenge What Demons Do To Saints ASIN: B000FP2ZVC Release Date: 2006-06-27

Tracks:

1. Unfolds
2. Spelunking
3. Choking
4. Nameless
5. Legend
6. One Hitter Quitter
7. Om
8. Danny Fresh & Ruffle Skirts
9. Pieces
10. Texas Funerals And Flapjacks
11. Greenhouse Effect
12. Blackout

Customer Reviews:

To This Day ~Chapter 1: Between Bridges~.......2006-07-06

If Every Time I Die and Hatebreed (circa Under the Knife/Satisfaction is the Death of Desire) got married and had children, they would name it To This Day. Trashy riffing, sludgey breakdowns mixed with a tough guy hardcore edge pretty much sums up this album. Nothing earth shattering here but if you dig tough guy hardcore, you'll need this album.

For fans of: Throwdown, Hatebreed, Every Time I Die

Average customer rating: My first great listening experience of the new year

Orchestra Dim Bridges Eyvind Kang , and Tucker Martine Manufacturer: Conduit Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Theater of Mineral NADEs The Story of Iceland Virginal Co Ordinates Blue Marble Peeping Tom ASIN: B0006FYP46 Release Date: 2004-11-23

Tracks:

1. Horizon
2. Elegy Elegie
3. Dim Bridges
4. Daughters of the Sun
5. The Echoing Green
6. Baseer Ornamental
7. Madrona
8. Bright Shadows Occulted
9. Braille Oscuro
10. Version Like Rain
11. Genetic

Customer Reviews:

My first great listening experience of the new year.......2005-01-08

Eyvind Kang and Tucker Martine have known each other for quite a while. In light of the spectacular music they make on this remarkable disc, the only question is this: Why did it take them so long to record together?

Kang, long a member of Bill Frisell's quartet, has a unique approach to his primary instrument, the violin. Not only does he get an astounding variety of sounds from it, he also has a knack for playing it in a faux-naive way that humanizes its sometimes harsh timbre and imbues it with a warmth and eerie beauty uniquely his. With a handful of outrageous solo discs to his credit, including such weirdness as The Sweetness of Sickness and Theater of Mineral NADEs, he has carved out a niche in contemporary improvised music completely his own.

Tucker Martine, long associated with Wayne Horvitz (see esp. their latest, Mylab), but also the production genius behind artists like Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Laura Veirs, Down Pilot, and Sanford Arms, as well as heading up the sound collage project Mount Analog, is fast becoming one of the most in-demand sound-sculptors working in the biz today.

Together they've created one of the most beguiling, intriguing, and just plain weird discs out there. Ranging in styles as diverse as demented pop to outré electronica--and nearly everything in between--Orchestra Dim Bridges presents a constantly shifting soundscape of staggering diversity. Yet, strangely, several unifying threads unite these disparate materials: the lads' propensity for purely gorgeous melodies, a wacky world-percussive sensibility, dreamy, ocean floor/blasted heath moods, and the seamless assimilation and appropriation of the wildest assortment of world musics conceivable.

Anyone taken with some of Frisell's latest projects, Mylab, Dhafer Youssef, Critters Buggin, and Garage a Trois should waste no time in picking this up. Others with big ears will also want to give a listen.

Highest recommendation.

Average customer rating: "Bridges" delivers

Between the Bridges Sloan Manufacturer: Murder ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Jangle Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Navy Blues One Chord to Another Action Pact Peppermint Smeared ASIN: B00004YTYO Release Date: 2007-01-08

Tracks:

1. N.S.
2. So Beyond Me
3. Don't You Believe a Word
4. Friendship
5. Sensory Deprivation
6. All by Ourselves
7. Long Time Coming
8. Waiting for Slow Songs
9. Losing California
10. Marquee and the Moon
11. Take Good Care of the Poor Boy
12. Delivering Maybes

Album Description

The Canadian alternative pop act's 1999 album.

Customer Reviews:

"Bridges" delivers.......2003-10-08

A fine hybrid of many '70s pop/rock stylings, sequenced together in a "medley" form, a la Beatles' Abbey Road. Don't expect to be 'wowed', but this is a very entertaining album. The boys from Halifax deliver.

Average customer rating: A breath of fresh air

Forever Red Omar Lopez Manufacturer: Omar Lopez ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAJTEQ Release Date: 2005-06-07

Tracks:

1. Dawn
2. Love Someone
3. Exodus
4. Testimonial Ocean (Part I)
5. Testimonial Ocean (Part II)
6. Forever Red
7. Reasons for Living
8. Fallen
9. Resurrection
10. Neverending Story

Customer Reviews:

A breath of fresh air.......2006-06-26

Omar Lopez and his band are on the cutting edge of something great. Taking from inspirations in various ethnic and world-style musics, and borrowed at times from the influence of Yanni, Omar's class and style put forth a very pleasing project. The songs are energetic and punchy, with plenty of electronic beats to provide the driving rhythm for his stunning violin solos.

This album is a must have. His live performances are phenomenal, and there's always a line to purchase one of his CDs. Guaranteed to impress.

Average customer rating:

Everything is New Again Best of Seven Manufacturer: Hellkat ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002I65DQ Release Date: 2004-06-29

Tracks:

1. Wonder
2. Mark Ratner
3. Jimmy
4. Anything
5. Baby Loves You

Album Description

BEST OF SEVEN's Everything is New Again EP heralds the arrival of a naturally gifted band that places as much emphasis on songwriting smarts and brotherhood of the band as they do on flat out rock n' roll. Recorded at the world-famous Cherokee studios (Jimmy Eats World, Queens of the Stone Age, the Lemonheads, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, David Bowie, amongst others) Everything is New Again celebrates the magic of tight bonds, loose morals, and a summer in anywhere-but-here, small town middle America.

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