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REVIEW
The superb balladeer Rick Pickren arrives with a new one filled with his gently different views of the terrain. Often he is nicely poetic in his approach, with the true meanings being cloaked in other imagery, making him all the more interesting as an artist!
Pickren’s musical support this time is twelve strong. The two songs from other writers he chose to cover typify his vision. He does the song its writers won’t (Tyson & Russell’s “Claude Dallas”) and the Western song The Byrds wrote (”Chestnut Mare”).
His originals show diverse sources of musical inspiration, including “Shake The Chill” with its progressive pop feel for the land rush ending in a haunting Indian drumming (read between those lines)! Or an ironically cheery Civil War piece saying “Better Days Are Comin’” for the South and we know the outcome. Or a nod to “Black Bart,” the gentlest road agent.
His originals show diverse sources of musical inspiration, including “Shake The Chill” with its progressive pop feel for the land rush ending in a haunting Indian drumming (read between those lines)! Or an ironically cheery Civil War piece saying “Better Days Are Comin’” for the South and we know the outcome. Or a nod to “Black Bart,” the gentlest road agent.
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