Up the Country

Up the Country Artist: The Sixth Great Lake
Label: Kindercore Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 675818006324
EAN: 0675818006324
ASIN: B000059T3C


Release Date: 2001-03-27

Up the Country


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Tracks:

  1. Duck Pond
  2. Across The Northern Border
  3. Up The Country
  4. The Ballad Of A Sometimes Traveller
  5. Cannon Beach
  6. Descending Star
  7. Blue
  8. Last In Line
  9. You Make The Call
  10. Shade Of Love
  11. 27 Forever
  12. Spin Your Wheels
  13. 300 Miles
  14. Rockin' Chair
  15. Lovely Today

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars It grows on you.......2004-04-12

There are just a handfull of records that are pretty much perfect from start to finish- ones that don't cling to b-sides and have enough solid a-sides to round out a very full album. "Up the Country" is one of those albums for me. I bought the cd at an Essex Green show during the SXSW festival in Austin (I hadn't heard them before, but was intrigued by the anglophilic name). The album didn't grab me right away, but after only 4-5 listens, it became one of my favorites. I can't think of any song I would leave out. I love all of 'em. Whoever put together the sequencing of the songs did a very good job. The songs flow beautifully from one to the next. I have since bought some Essex Green cds and have enjoyed them as well. But there's still just something special about The Sixth Great Lake that's hard to replicate.

5 out of 5 stars Sixties style country-folk from East Coast Hippies........2001-11-13

This album is crammed with songs about hitting the open road, building bonfires on the banks of lakes, staying young and sharing that hippie-travelling-sixties zeitgeist. The feel is very collective, with no real leader, and no lead-singer. Up The Country takes the same look at sixties folk as Belle and Sebastian did on their seminal If You're Feeling Sinister, but with more of an eye on the burgeoning country-rock of Gram Parsons and The Byrds with a nod to the vocal delivery of Lee Hazlewood. While Stuart Murdoch takes a decidedly sophisticated literary take on the song lyric, trying to fashion candid tragic love stories out of 4 minute songs, the lyricists on Up The Country, put a premium on the innocence of the Sixties "love" generation, that is before they lost it. The lyrics are however written by people too young to have experienced that innocence so the tone is reverential. Besides the occasional female voice and absence of a pedal steel this album is not unlike recent alt-country/neo-folk groups like Palace or The Beachwood Sparks. The comparisons to Belle and Sebastian are not imagined, on two occasions I took a double take. The first track Duck Pond sounds right off of Belle and Sebastian's latest album but decidedly better with it's throaty mumble, simple percussion, thick electric strums and a warm Fender Rhodes. It also has a semi-blue-eyed soul chorus and a nice outro solo. Track 5 Cannon Beach has a nice little flute/melodica bit snatched right off of Stars of Track and Field. If it's a slow and melancholy song that really gets you going then it's the love-lorn Ballad of a Sometimes Traveler. This track out-Oldham's the Bonnie Prince with its wrist-slitting slow pace, and depressively beautiful slide solo. If you're a fan of the uncomplicated honesty of Lee Hazlewood or Skip Spence, or the collective, communal comfort of Once by The Tyde you should probably order this record right now.

5 out of 5 stars Guppyboy + Essex Green = Sixth Great Lake.......2001-04-16

The 6GL album is by far this groups best album yet. This is their 3rd album, and their 3rd release under a different band name! The 60's pop influence is pretty much gone on this release - think late 60's folk / country music. Its very very laid back, but it has very strong melodies and memorable tunes. Excellent album. See them live - they put on an amazing show!

3 out of 5 stars

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