Artist: Greg Brown
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #66 Nov-Dec 2006
Greg Brown – Hallelujah anyway
When as a young child you are called by the Lord to rise from your metal folding chair in the basement of the Moose Hall and commit your life to Christ upon the commencement of the final chorus of “Close Thy Heart No More”, you remain forever susceptible to the lexicon of faith. All subsequent [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #54 Nov-Dec 2004
Greg Brown – In The Hills Of California
Greg Brown has the rare gift of creating songs that unwind with the roundabout informality of a thoughtful yet unstructured conversation. Regardless of how much work may or may not have gone into a particular tune’s genesis, the resulting piece feels of-the-moment, complete with interjections and sparky, synaptic sidebars. Over the course of nearly 25 [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Greg Brown – Honey In The Lion’s Head
This isn’t Greil Marcus’ or Harry Smith’s old, weird America. This is Richard Dyer-Bennet’s, Pete Seeger’s, and Burl Ives’ — in other words, songs for parlors and hootenannies that no longer exist, commonplace songs that aren’t so commonplace anymore. Some are sentimental, most are archetypes; all are more subtle and complex than you might remember [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #49 Jan-Feb 2004
Greg Brown – If I Had Known: Essential Recordings, 1980-1996
“If I had it all to do again, I’m not sure I would play the poet game,” sings Greg Brown on one of the best tracks on this superb retrospective disc. Notwithstanding that proclamation (which was probably a fleeting sentiment, anyway), Brown has, for the past two decades, been one of roots music’s most poetic [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Greg Brown – Milk Of The Moon
Believing that fast and steady wins the race, or at least trusting it’s the surest way to hone your craft and satisfy your soul, Greg Brown releases his eighteenth album in nineteen years. Milk Of The Moon finds Brown further developing his art in a rare but welcome direction: He’s a folk-inclined singer-songwriter who’s unafraid [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #28 July-Aug 2000
Greg Brown – Covenant
Blessed with a warm, glassware-rattling baritone rumble and a gift for illuminating life’s small moments with freeze-frame, close-quarter intimacy, Greg Brown has drawn heavily on his family ties and the people, rural hamlets and seemingly endless fields of his native eastern Iowa for inspiration, somehow managing to extrude universal appeal from patently parochial sources. The [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #27 May-June 2000
Ani Difranco / Gillian Welch / Greg Brown – Massey Hall (Toronto, Ontario)
Just to prove the gods of concert promotion have a sense of mischief, consider the two shows competing for the public’s attention in Toronto on this night. At the cavernous SkyDome, Ricky Martin was shaking his bon-bon atop a vintage car in a gaudy, prefab spectacle. Mere blocks away at the century-old classical recital venue [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #23 Sept-Oct 1999
Greg Brown – One Night
Recorded 17 years ago at the since-departed Minneapolis folk haven Coffeehouse Extempore, One Night was first released a year later on that club’s seldom-used, self-named house label. Brown was in the first flush as the toast of the Twin Cities, and his material, intimate delivery, and rambling monologue displayed a confident and crafty artist in [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Greg Brown – Slant of Enchantment
Leaving St. Louis in late September, Highway 61 takes one north, Missouri into Iowa, along the Mississippi, twin lanes unraveling past cornfields dying or not quite ready to die, silos overrun with reddening vines, beanfields, the river appearing aquamarine for seconds, disappearing, the bluffs, land putting the lie to Midwestern flatness, sinking and rising, carved [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #6 Nov-Dec 1996
Greg Brown – Further In
Baby boomer balladeer Greg Brown is like one of those friends you had back in school, the one you would always go to for advice because they could look at what seemed a complicated dilemma and extract an obvious answer. Brown’s wisdom cuts through the fog with amazing clarity. Further In contains 12 songs typical [...]
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