Label: Koch Records
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 099923805021
EAN: 0099923805021
ASIN: B00000K29X
Release Date: 1999-09-21
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Artist: R.B. Morris
Label: Koch Records Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 099923805021 EAN: 0099923805021 ASIN: B00000K29X Release Date: 1999-09-21 |
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In the '70s the word outlaw came to define a genre of country that mixed rock and honky-tonk with some folk lyricism and more than a little hard and fast living. R.B. Morris, a Knoxville singer-songwriter (and published poet and playwright), updates the Outlaw approach with an ambitious concept album that often roars like a resurrected junkyard V-8 (thanks to roots-rock producer R.S. Field and guitarist Kenny Vaughan) but mostly meditates soulfully on the human urge for freedom, whether in the form of moonshiners, prophets, bandits, poets, or lovers. Though woven together by a common thread of lawlessness, each of Morris's songs stands well on its own, especially the radiant "Lest We All Lose" (which sounds like a fine, lost country-soul single). Morris deserves a wider audience, not only from fans of gutsy singer-songwriters like Ray Wylie Hubbard and Bruce Springsteen, but from anyone interested in the best that alternative country has to offer. <I>--Roy Kasten</I>Customer Reviews:
Higher evolutionary art.......2002-11-11
Why ain't this guy famous?.......2002-11-06
My friend said, "R.B. Morris is a genius."
So, I played the CD again and really listened. Man, this guy really is a genius! Thank God I didn't make a caoster out of my copy. I play that CD over and over and over, and each time I see with greater depth the true profundity of this artist's imagery. Every listen is like peeling back a new layer of emotional expression which leaves me haunted with the message in his mood for hours afterward. It's just so damn clever, but at the same time, so honest, so real...so brilliant. There is a poet of the highest caliber lurking under this persona of a beer drinking, wandering bard.
For example, there is a song that says there is a still (like a moonshine still) inside each of us that produces our own elixer of life so why do we need a distillery to come in and take it over and tell us what to believe? Who would have thought spirituality was like a liquor still? Who would have compared the church to a distillery? R.B. Morris does and he makes such a notion so clear that I can feel the vapors in my very soul.
I think I'll have a little nip by playing that CD again right now.
Discover this man!.......2000-12-30
Stellar Follow-up to Take That Ride.......1999-12-23
The ongoing human struggle to treat each other with respect and dignity is the backdrop for Morris's mini-dramas, as reflected in the lyrics from Maybe the Soul: Maybe the soul can still be pure/ I'd like to think it's true/ There's something there for sure/ But I ain't got a clue/ There's laws of man, and laws of God/ and laws of nature too/ There's judges everywhere you look/ But they're all outlaws too.
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