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The great payoff on this album is not at the end; it's all the way through! Pistol River offers up 18 original songs that are more visceral than any other music I've been exposed to. Maybe it's the caliber of the players or conceivably it's the solid, dramatic performances of the vocalists - perhaps it's the solid, creative structure of songwriting, but whatever it is these guys play and sing the hell out of songs that are reminiscent of days when country was rural! If you want a taste of what should be playing on the radio, listen to Memory Like Mine and the other tracks on this Pistol River release. Brad Disney Rockford Music Review Rarely does a CD today pack as many consistently memorable songs as the Pistol River CD, Memory Like Mine. The lyrics literally roll over your tongue. There's a superb sense of song craft with easily recognizable influences of The Beatles and even Billy Joel as the tracks range onward embracing Merle Haggard, Carl Perkins and the early influences of real country music. There is so much to choose from this delicious collection of songs primarily written by John W. Bizzack and Marvin L. Adcock with a little help from a few of their friends with whom they occasionally collaborate. Every track rewards repeated listens. It'll leave you hungry for more. Haley DeNatale The Music Express - UK Who knew Pistol River was going to be more than a western ballad or story telling band? While their epical Western Ballad Opera release in early 2003 is still making a stir in Americana and western music markets, Pistol River forges ahead with yet another musical gift, but this time there are eighteen tracks swinging from passionate, romantic ballads blended with uplifting and straight ahead honky-tonk, hook-filled rootsy music. The title track, "Memory Like Mine" is an instant country standard and with tongue in cheek, the writers, Bizzack and Adcock, cleverly presents "That Night in Paris" as a classical song about a lovers rendezvous, then surprises us by revealing that the night in Paris they so vividly describe is actually Paris, Texas! There are other elegantly portrayed slices of life found in the moving "I've Been Missing You Today," when near the end it is revealed that the song is being sung by a father to his daughter. They stylishly wax philosophical throughout "What a Man's Gotta' Do" (For a man in the city or a farm in Mississippi, the right road's always up hill...") as Ray Barnette begins a strapping vocal performance by asking the question, "Is there anyone listenin' who hasn't thought about quittin', and simply runnin' away...?" You can't listen your way through this CD without toe tapping with "Gone, Gone, Gone" and its seamless bluegrass harmonies or feeling the need to get up and dance to the rock-a-billy groove of "Livin' It Up!" There's plenty offered on this project and Pistol River has definitely found a dual musical identity: western storytelling ballads and plain-old-fashioned-good-music. Adam Mueller Phoenix Quartely Check out the artist's website: http://pistolriver.net Track List: 1. She's What My Heart Had In Mind 2. My Heart Stops Here 3. Five Blocks Away 4. Gone, Gone, Gone 5. Livin' It Up! 6. Memory Like Mine 7. I've Been Missing You Today 8. The Last Thing That I Need 9. Cross Your Heart 10. What A Man's Gotta Do 11. Two More Waiter! 12. When I Get Too Close To You 13. 1-800-Goodbye 14. That Night In Paris 15. That's What Love Does To A Man 16. Without Me 17. Love's Gonna Get Us All 18. Look At The Love We're In Suggested CDs:Other Genres: |