Slant 6

Slant 6

Slant 6

ASIN: B000093HQ2

Editorial Reviews
BLUE SUEDE NEWS, Dennis DeWitt
"A modern American classic and a must have for your collection."

Product Description
Ten original instrumentals, influenced by classic country, rockabilly, R&B, surf, and rock and roll. Booker T and the MG's meet Gene Vincent in an alley and decide to score a Western.

Slant 6

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Slant 6 Mind
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Only American poet with something to say
  • Don't "mind" if I do . . .
  • Growly
  • Bluesy Folk Grooving With Depth
  • Another classic
 Slant 6 Mind
Greg Brown
Manufacturer: Red House
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  1. Further In
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ASIN: B000001BBK
Release Date: 1997-10-21

Tracks:

  1. Whatever It Was
  2. Loneliness House
  3. Mose Allison Played Here
  4. Spring & All
  5. Vivid
  6. Dusty Woods
  7. Billy From The Hills
  8. Speaking In Tongues
  9. Enough
  10. Hurt So Nice
  11. Wild Like A Sonny Boy
  12. Down At The Mill
  13. Why Don't You Just Go Home

Amazon.com

With very little fanfare, Iowa-based Greg Brown has quietly put together one of the finest singer/songwriter careers of his generation. Perhaps he's ignored because he's neither as sentimental as our "sensitive" singer/songwriters nor as overstated as our "innovative" artists. Instead he writes understated, unflinchingly honest, unromantic stories about working-class folks in the Midwest and then delivers these songs in a gravelly baritone filled with hints of Dylanesque folk, Delta blues, and Hank Senior honky-tonk. His 13th album, Slant 6 Mind, pulls off the devilish trick of mixing jokes and despair--often in the same song. The album's title comes from the first song, "Whatever It Was," a laundry list of all the things that have gone from good to worse in America. There's genuine anger in the way he describes farmland chopped into housing developments, main streets turned into ghost towns and conversation replaced by TV and the Internet. And yet he is surely chuckling when he delivers such punch lines as, "She says, `Come hither,' but when I get hither she is yon," and "It's been quite a week, there was a drive-by shooting in Lake Wobegon." The reason these jokes work so well is that Brown sings them in the same deadpan drawl that he does his fiercest indictments. He respects the intelligence of his listeners enough to assume we'll be able to tell the difference. And because he allows us the pleasure of deciphering his songs ourselves, we learn how anger, hope, and humor are not opponents so much as partners.

Many songwriters have paid tribute to Robert Johnson, but few have captured the mystery and power of that legendary bluesman as Brown does on "Dusty Woods." Kelly Joe Phelps's slide guitar lends a Delta blues feel to several other songs, and there's an eerie mystery as well to songs such as "Speaking in Tongues," a sincere tribute to holy-roller churches, and "Billy from the Hills," a tribute to his backwoods father. Many of 1997's albums are more obvious than Slant 6 Mind, but few have been as substantial. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Only American poet with something to say.......2005-09-03

Brown takes you from some backwoods small town sawdust pile right into the armpit grit of the modern world of urban distortion,tecnology,cynicism and everything in between. But the real human element is always there, the good the bad and the who give's a damn...you just got to listen. For most it does not come easy, but the truth usually hurts...and once you hear it you get hooked.Both Bo Ramsey's and Greg Brown's playing is unbelievable, the musical blend of these two wizards is a tapestry of "less is more" in a style most muscians never achieve, the ultimate fusionists. I was floored when I first heard this six or seven years back, and I just re-purchased ...it's all as relevent or more so then ever. Brown has timeless raw insights to share, Americana a la 21st century. Mr. Brown has a stack of albumns, I have heard most and never found the music or prose lacking.Thank you Mr. Brown.

5 out of 5 stars Don't "mind" if I do . . ........2005-04-01

Probably Greg Brown's coolest album! And that's saying somethin'.
It pulls you in right off the top with "Whatever It Was" and takes you for a nice ride all the way through.
"Mose Allison Played Here" is a tasty tribute to Mose.
Out of 13 tunes, "Wild Like Sonny Boy" is the only one I woulda left out.
I'd recommend picking up "The Poet Game" next.
Enjoy the Ride!

3 out of 5 stars Growly.......2004-11-08

I like Greg Brown when he's being wry and lyrical. This CD is gruffer, less melodic, less intimate and unfortunately, less appealing. Most of the songs are half-spoken instead of sung, and I just wished there were a couple of gentle tracks to break it up. If you like your folk music bluesy and growly with lots of words but not many tunes, this will be for you. It's not bad, but so not my favourite GB album.

5 out of 5 stars Bluesy Folk Grooving With Depth.......2003-09-24

Johnny Cash fans might dig Greg Brown.

He's got a folk sound, but with a blues undertone, and a western overlay. There's a Bruce Cockburn sensibility, with some nuances of Elvis Costello. Even Bob Dylan fans will find something in "Slant 6 Mind," especially those struck by Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" and "Oh Mercy" albums.

Brown has a deep, relaxed voice. The guitars are sometimes picked, sometimes strummed, with a jazz-folk, front-porch flavor.

The lyrics are personal, in the manner of Springsteen and Van Morrison, though not as blue collar thematically. He draws, instead, from the experiences of a rural, country growing up.

From the first song, "Whatever it was," he slides in some ironic humor:

"She says, "Come hither", but when I get hither she is yon.
I was looking for what I loved. Whatever it was, it's gone."

It is all visual and metaphoric throughout the album, like his envisioning of blues man Robert Johnson, in a mournful lowing "Dusty"

"He licks the pencil, looks around, writes a few words down,
and pulls a moan from his guitar
A hound dog answers low and he stands up real slow
He's got a ways to go, he don't know how far"

Find passion and slow slide guitars and harmonicas, rich mixing that never overwhelms a song. Buy it for your next long drive down I-80 or up Rt. 66 and put it on repeat. You'll like it the first time, and it'll grow on you.

I fully recommend "Slant 6 Mind" by Greg Brown.

Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com

4 out of 5 stars Another classic.......2001-07-18

Like everything he did in the 90's, this is great. Just not as great as "Dream Cafe" and "Poet Game".
Soda Pop-Rip Off
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Good Old School Punk (Oh, and they're girls)
  • Secret Anthem
 Soda Pop-Rip Off
Slant 6
Manufacturer: Dischord
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000JPS
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

  1. Don't You Ever?
  2. Nights X 9
  3. Love Shock
  4. Double Edged Knife
  5. Time Expired
  6. Invisible Footsteps
  7. Poison Arrows Shot At Heros
  8. Don't Censor Me
  9. Blood Song
  10. Soda Pop-Rip Off
  11. Become Your Ghost
  12. Blue Angel
  13. March 6
  14. What Kind Of Monster Are You?
  15. Semi-Blue Tile
  16. Thirty-Thirty Vision

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Good Old School Punk (Oh, and they're girls).......2003-12-04

Closer in sound to the 1977 Avengers and early Sonic Youth than contemporaries like Veruca Salt and Elastica, however accessible to fans of both the former and the later. If you like Siouxsie & the Banshees early work and Peel Sessions you might be able to get into this, but if you are more partial to later Siouxsie recordings, then this is probably too raw for you. Best tracks include: Night X 9, the title track and Semi-Blue Tile.

5 out of 5 stars Secret Anthem.......1999-12-08

If you're the kind of person that finds herself adopting surf punk songs as secret anthems, this is the album for you.
Inzombia
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Cool little record, but no soda pop
  • Inzombia Will Enchant You
 Inzombia
Slant 6
Manufacturer: Dischord
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000JPZ
Release Date: 1995-05-15

Tracks:

  1. G.F.S.
  2. Babydoll
  3. Click-Click
  4. Instrumental
  5. Ladybug Superfly
  6. Retro Duck
  7. Partner In Crime
  8. Victim Of Your Own Desires
  9. Eight Swimming Pools
  10. Insider Spider
  11. Mascaria
  12. Inzombia

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Cool little record, but no soda pop.......2006-01-20

"Inzombia" admittedly has some of Slant 6's best tracks (of their disappointingly small two album discography), but it also has their worst. Some of these tracks really rock and showcase that flair only Slant 6 seems to capture, a retro-style girl punk that has attitude without coming off as cheezy or pretentious. Unfortunately, tracks like "Retro Duck" and the album's much too long title track are songs to skip--and this coming from someone who believes skipping tracks is ordinarily a punishable offence in music listening. I'm not telling you not to buy it; it's good, but it lacks the consistently mind-blowing song-writing that "Soda Pop-Rip Off" has, as well as uniformity as a whole.

5 out of 5 stars Inzombia Will Enchant You.......2000-03-03

Edgy but smooth, with infectious lyrics and melodies. If you even think you might be interested in Slant 6 this CD is where you should start. It won't leave your CD player for weeks. LadyBug Superfly and Victim of Your Own Desires are amazing tracks that will stick in your head forever. I still catch myself humming LadyBug in the shower, a few years after the first time I listened to it. The whole CD is a little on the dark side, it has a mesmerizing quality. If you like Grrl Groups that rock with great voices and intelligent lyrics, I promise you will love this CD.
Slant 6 Cowboys
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Slant 6 Cowboys - Quality songs since 2001
  • Great alt. country band
 Slant 6 Cowboys
Slant 6 Cowboys
Manufacturer: 95North Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002IF0C8
Release Date: 2004-06-28

Tracks:

  1. Badlands
  2. Driftin'
  3. Hard Times
  4. Tennessee Love
  5. Ole Muddy
  6. Hearts Break
  7. Whikey Breathin'
  8. Last Shot
  9. Your Man
  10. Cold Hard Facts
  11. Out Of Time
  12. Jesus and Elvis

Album Description

"As a songwriter I like to bare my soul and put all of my emotions and feelings to music", as front man and founder of the Slant 6 Cowboys, Don Whitcher has done just that. On the debut release for New England based Slant 6 Cowboys, Whitcher has written a collection of songs that carry you the range of human emotion. " Well what can I say? Broken hearts, jail time, a lot of whiskey, women, fighting and violence. I've seen good times and bad, done a lot of traveling. I've played with a lot of great musicians and been influenced by Johnny Cash, Hank and a whole lot more."

In the style of the Old West, the Slant 6 Cowboys break down the door with guns blazing. A take no prisoners attitude and the talent to back it up. The opening track `Badlands' features the guitar slinging style of Peter James Coonradt….the guys at DiscMakers called him "Jeff Beck goes Country!!" His sensibility for the traditions of Americana Roots music is met with a modern style and blistering presentation. Add the guitar wizardry and gritty vocals of Don Whitcher and this band brings a fresh new oft times angry spirit to Americana music.

It's atalented group of musicians who have honed their craft to a sharp edge without losing sight of the roots of their influence. The songs speak of wide open spaces, love gone bad, whiskey and bad women and good love too….songs about life, the hard way.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Slant 6 Cowboys - Quality songs since 2001.......2005-02-06

Wow!!! Alternative country at it's absolute best. Forget the nashville puppet show It's time to move up to the real deal.

5 out of 5 stars Great alt. country band.......2004-07-13

Recently I was looking around for something new. Something fresh. I happened to find a band by the name of Slant 6 Cowboys. I checked their website out and liked what I heard. Then I bought the cd and realized just how good these guys are. I was shocked that such a talented band has gone un-noticed by the mass media. I have a feeling though that these guys will be huge soon enough. If you have any taste in good country, then buy this cd for it is well worth the wait, no questions about it. Trust me when I say that you will not be disappointed.
Emily Dickinson a Different Slant of Light
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Emily Dickinson a Different Slant of Light

    Manufacturer: Capstone
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
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    ASIN: B0000649OX
    Release Date: 2002-04-30

    Tracks:

    1. Mucicians Wrestle Everywhere - Cary John Franklin
    2. This Is My Letter To The World - Robert Greenlee
    3. This Little Rose - William Rose
    4. Two Butterflies - Robert Baksa
    5. I'm Nobody - Robert Baksa
    6. Going To Heaven! - Aaron Copland
    7. I Shall Keep Singing - William Goldberg
    8. Wild Nights - Wild Nights! - Richard Pearson Thomas
    9. A Night - Brian Banks
    10. The Heart Asks Pleasure First... - Earl George
    11. I Died For Beauty - Ethan Haimo
    12. Much Madness Is Divinest Sense - Donald Betts
    13. My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close - Donald Betts
    14. There's A Certain Slant Of Life - Robert Baksa
    15. I Heard A Fly - Ken Langer
    16. A Soul Selects - Beth Wiemann
    17. Wild Nights - Wild Nights - Dave Aperans
    18. Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart? - John Duke
    19. I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed - John Duke
    Slant 6
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Slant 6
      Riptones
      Manufacturer: The Orchard
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      Alt-Country & AmericanaAlt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B000093HQ2
      Release Date: 2003-04-08

      Tracks:

      1. Go Be and Do
      2. Extra Sauce
      3. Slant 6
      4. Close Shave
      5. Nugget
      6. Buckshot
      7. Don't Touch My Hair
      8. Maid Rites
      9. Big Timber
      10. El Camino

      Album Description

      Ten original instrumentals, influenced by classic country, rockabilly, R&B, surf, and rock and roll. Booker T and the MG's meet Gene Vincent in an alley and decide to score a Western.
      Driving to the Edge
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        		Driving to the Edge

        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000FTAN5S
        Release Date: 2003-08-05

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        1. Sounds Good to Me
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