Nick Ferrio and His Feelings: Introducing Nick Ferrio and His Feelings (CD on Nick Ferrio)

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Band:Nick Ferrio and His Feelings
Title:Introducing Nick Ferrio and His Feelings
Reviewed By:Andrew Carver
Date Published:30/10/2012

Label:Nick Ferrio
Format:CD
Release Year:2012
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Nick Ferrio hails from the Ottawa Valley town of Peterborough, where he also serves as a player for cabaret crowd the Burning Hell, and fuzzy Dinosaur Jr. appreciators Baby Eagle & The Proud Mothers.

On his debut album he gets in touch with his country side for some old-timey ballads.

The nine tracks on ‘Introducing Nick Ferrio & His Feelings’ clock in at just under a half-hour and should off his fondness for old school, pedal steel-flavoured country, a quirky, wry humour.

Ferrio shows off his fondness for wordplay, running through and contrasting the many meanings of ‘Iris’ and ‘Nick’ in ‘Popiular Flower’, a paean to his lady love.

Though the sounds are fairly traditional, Ferrio puts a bit of a twist in some of his tunes. The true-life tale, ‘The Trial of Mary Harshbarger’, gives a fairly accurate rundown of the case of a woman who allegedly mistook her husband for a bear and shot him (she got off and later married her brother-in-law).

‘Always Searching’ transforms a plaintive love song into an out-and-out demand for fornication.

In ‘Free Man, Switzerland’, Ferrio turns the usual country rebel into someone grumbling about the Swiss police, with some decidedly non-traditional guitar fuzz. (His frequent travels get another airing in when returns to Europe for a tribute to the inner ferocity of zoo bears in ‘Kollnischer Park’.)

He turns old-style murder ballads on their head in ‘Otanabee’ where the guy gets it instead of the girl. In live performance, he’s introduced ‘Otanabee’ - the name of a local river, where the tune’s protagonist drowns - as a response to tunes like the ever-popular ‘Pretty Polly’.

Anyone who enjoys their country music heartfelt, old school and a bit off-kilter should greatly enjoy their introduction to Ferrio and company.

Track Listing:

01) Night Garden
02) Popular Flower
03) Always Searching
04) Free Man, Switzerland
05) Otonabee
06) Story's Long, Story's Old
07) Köllnischer Park
08) The Trial of Mary Harshbarger
09) When We Sang Together

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http://www.nickferrio.com/
http://www.songkick.com/artists/5029428-nick-ferrio-and-his-feelings
https://twitter.com/ferrioinstereo
https://www.facebook.com/ferrioinstereo

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