Perfect High

Perfect High Artist: Bob Gibson
Label: (Deleted) Mountain Railroad
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: LP Record


UPC: 032638279411
EAN: 0032638279411
ASIN: B000001XOI


Release Date: 1991-11-26

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars COULD WE HERE A LITTLE MORE OF JO MAPES.......2000-07-02

On one of the tracks, Bob sings a duet with Jo Mapes. She sounded beautiful. Unfortunately, I can't find anything she has recorded.

I enjoyed the CD but I wish I could have heard some more of Jo Mapes.

4 out of 5 stars The nearly perfect album..........2000-02-23

I've been moving the mouse between four and five for at least that many minutes, believing as I do, that any Bob Gibson, is a grand event. It's just that this one has never been my favorite. Bobby and I used to talk about why, since I love every note that ever fell out of the man's mouth, and we decided it wasthe way the whole thing hung together. It's more surface, more casual, light, with few exceptions, and when they come, as in "Army of Children" they seem a little harsh, a little out of place in the mix. Not that 'light's a bad thing... No matter what CD I've put in, each time I drive south from our Mendocino home, I do so humming, " Bobby! Don't forget your boots..." from "...Desperado" the story of Gibson and Wild Jack on one of their legendary, excursions... The voice is solid - clear, inviting and wonderful. The twelve-string and banjo, are strong, and the material is catchy - "Rock me Sweet Jesus" is just dandy! It's rousing, he soars, and more, it's the evidence of the nimble, duality Bobby brings to each song of "Issue". "Box of Candy..." with Tom Paxton, is deft and clever, [also true] and contains the single funniest tag line since Danny Thomas's first spit take... "Heavenly Choir" is all the more haunting, because he is now up there leading it. And "BaBa Fats"... Well, any album containing that particular bit of "Gib-Stein" wisdom, at their most amused, most, tounge- in-cheek best, deserves the "High..." that is nearly...almost...perfect. The last few years of his life, Bobby grew to love the "house concerts" people begged for, state to state, region to region. He saw them as personal "thank-you's" to all the "Middleaged Groupies" he loved and who loved him. As his strength began to wain, he'd compensate, pulling from a bag of performance skills that left him a fine and spellbinding, story teller. He always closed those concerts with the mystical BaBa, and he always left them, wanting more. Pick your number, four or five...This nearly, perfect offering is no different...

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