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Danny Schmidt
Label:
Live Once Records
Title:
Owls
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Band:
Danny Schmidt
Title:
Owls
Reviewed By:
Mark Rowland
Date Published:
18/04/2015
Label:
Live Once Records
Format:
CD
Release Year:
2015
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Danny Schmidt is capable of making a very simple arrangement sound huge, as evidenced on ‘Owls’, his seventh album. Schmidt is interested in roots music of all kinds; blues, folk, country and gospel can be heard in Schmidt’s songs.
The sound of ‘Owls’ owes something to later alt-country/Americana bands such as Whiskeytown and Drive By Truckers, and to the Californian country/folk/rock of CSN&Y. At its best – ‘Guns & The Crazy Ones’, ‘Bad Year For Cane’, ‘Cries of Shadows’ – Owls is uplifting and transcendent, full of great lyrical imagery and music that makes the most of the limitations of the country and folk genres.
Elsewhere, you’ll find slick, very well played, very well constructed songs that make for pleasant listening, but aren’t particularly exciting. Still, Schmidt is capable of creating a great dusty, sun-bleached drama in his songs, as evidenced in opener ‘Girl With Lantern Eyes’, and the fantastic ‘Soon the Earth Shall Swallow’ which flits between a great barroom shuffle and gentle and gentle pastoral folk without jarring.
Track Listing:
01) Girl With Lantern Eyes
02) Guns & the Crazy Ones
03) Soon the Earth Shall Swallow
04) Faith Will Always Rise
05) Bad Year for Cane
06) Looks Like God
07) Cries of Shadows
08) All the More to Wonder
09) Cry On the Flowers
10) Paper Cranes
11) Wings of No Restraint
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