Dowdy Ferry Road

1. Dowdy Ferry Road

2. It's Sad to Belong

3. Soldier in the Rain

4. Love Is the One Thing We Hide

5. Gone Too Far

6. Where Do I Go from Here

7. Falling Stars

8. You Know We Belong Together

9. Don't Feel That Way No More

10. Holocaust

Dowdy Ferry Road,England Dan & John Ford Coley,Wounded Bird Records,Country-Rock,Pop,Pop Vocals,Pop/Rock,Rock/Pop,Singer/Songwriter,Soft Rock,United States of America

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Dowdy Ferry Road

Average customer rating: melodic genius Awesome cd some gems here, but not a particularly great value at the current list price

Dowdy Ferry Road England Dan & John Ford Coley Manufacturer: Wounded Bird Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Similar Items: Some Things Don't Come Easy Nights Are Forever Dr. Heckle & Mr. Jive The Very Best of England Dan & John Ford Coley Essentals V. 1 ASIN: B0009E323Y Release Date: 2005-05-31

Tracks:

1. Dowdy Ferry Road
2. It's Sad to Belong
3. Soldier in the Rain
4. Love Is the One Thing We Hide
5. Gone Too Far
6. Where Do I Go from Here
7. Falling Stars
8. You Know We Belong Together
9. Don't Feel That Way No More
10. Holocaust

Customer Reviews:

melodic genius.......2007-04-20

This is a beautiful album, full of enchanting melodic ballads. I think 'holocaust' is just about the best thing they ever did, with mostly instrumental classical passages and a gorgeous melody. There is the stripped down acoustic ballad 'don't feel that way no more', with just a touch of country. 'Soldier in the rain' is a really ambitious piano ballad, with a progressive middle eight instrumental section. 'It's sad to belong' has a lvely melody and a good set of lyrics. John Ford Coley sings lead vocal on only 'falling stars', but this is also a winner. Every track here is a winner, actually. They are all ballads, except for the first track 'dowdy ferry road', which is really catchy and some nice guitar work. Highly recommended.

Awesome cd.......2007-01-23

They just keep getting better on each cd they put out. & there Nights & Forever cd is just as awesome as all there others. Id go out & buy this cd along with there others. Im a really big fan of theres & always will be.There music awesome & very relaxing to listen to.

some gems here, but not a particularly great value at the current list price.......2005-05-31

England Dan & John Ford Coley's "Dowdy Ferry Road" album originally came out in March of 1977--it's their second in a string of 4 proper albums for Big Tree/ Atlantic Records in the latter half of the '70s, all of which have just been issued on CD on the Wounded Bird label. There are a bunch of compilation CDs out there for England Dan & John Ford Coley--there's Rhino's "The Very Best Of England Dan & John Ford Coley", Atlantic's "The Essentials", plus another one titled "Essentials" on WEA. If you were actually to have bought each of those aforementioned discs, you'd have 6 of the 10 tracks on this album, as well as a lot of overlapping tracks. Now, I have no complaints about Wounded Bird putting out these England Dan & John Ford Coley albums on CD--to my knowledge, the "Dowdy Ferry Road" album had never been released on CD before in its entirety, and of the 4 tracks that don't appear on any of the aforementioned compilations, all of which happen to be Dan Seals solo compositions, there are a couple gems. However, at the current list price of $14.98, with the total running time of the album clocking in at less than 33 minutes, plus with the album being rather uneven in terms of quality, it's not a particularly great value. In a number of instances, Wounded Bird has released two albums together on a single CD, and with this album being so short, it's practically screaming out to be paired up with "Nights Are Forever" or "Some Things Don't Come Easy", and it's unfortunate that this didn't happen. I realize the folks at Wounded Bird need to make money, and they really have made some great music easily available on CD, sometimes for the first time, but even if Wounded Bird had decided to raise the list price a few dollars for a twofer, it would have been a much better bargain that way.

As I said before, there are indeed a number of gems on here. It starts off with Dan Seals' brilliant title track--with its Bo Diddley rhythm on the verses and the surging choruses, it's an absolute hook-fest. Apart from that track, it's pretty much all ballads on here, and the quality varies considerably. The sighing Randy Goodrun composition "It's Sad To Belong", which was a solid hit, is a great, superbly melodic tune, even though Dan Seals himself has made it clear that he never liked the song's fidelity-themed lyrics. Also a sizable hit was John Ford Coley's "Gone Too Far", and although Coley stated in reference to this song that he wasn't trying to write a hit, it certainly sounds like an attempt at another "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight", both with the piano intro and the lyrics, and it's an irresistibly catchy uptempo song in its own right, although it feels a bit rushed through. Coley also wrote the lovely, gentle ballad "Falling Stars". Seals' "Don't Feel The Way No More" is a terrific, moody acoustic ballad--with its lyrics about not dragging out a relationship when the love is gone, it sounds like a response to "It's Sad To Belong".

Unfortunately, some of the tracks aren't up to par. Parker McGee's "Where Do I Go From Here" is a decent tune along the lines of his "I Just Can't Say No To You", but it's weepy and has a dishearteningly cookie-cutter feel; the chorus is nice although it feels kinda throwaway-ish. A couple of Dan Seals' songs are also disappointing--"Love Is The One Thing We Hide" is a sappy ballad with dull cut-and-paste lyrics; and "Holocaust" is a nice attempt at an uplifting album closer and has excellent harmonies, but it suffers from sickly-sweetness. The duo-penned "You Know We Belong Together" is one of those take-it-or-leave-it type of songs--an inoffensive, if forgettable, ballad-ish pop-rocker. And the relatively lengthy "Soldier In The Rain" kinda bites off more than it can chew, although again, it's not a bad track, and it has a really memorable middle-eight.

It's too bad Wounded Bird never bothers with bonus tracks because there's a lovely, waltzing song called "The Time Has Come" which didn't make any of ED & JFC's albums--it turned up as a b-side for "It's Sad To Belong"'s single release and was also used in the film "Joe Panther".

England Dan & John Ford Coley have such a pleasant sound, and there really isn't anything BAD here, but the album just strikes me as overall being too slight, and in the case of the Wounded Bird CD, overpriced--I can't bring myself to rate it higher. You will be rewarded with some gems if you pick this CD up--if you see it used for $6, that's one thing--but for the current list price, it's not a fantastic bargain.

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