Home Grown, Vol. 4

Home Grown, Vol. 4 Artist: Various Artists
Label: Home Grown
Category: Music


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


UPC: 710184767025
EAN: 0710184767025
ASIN: B00004TWT1


Release Date: 2000-06-20

Home Grown, Vol. 4


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Tracks:

  1. Feel It - Wise Monkey Orchestra
  2. Break Of Day (Live) - The Big Wu
  3. Marist (Live) - Stir Fried
  4. Sunday Driver - Gordon Stone
  5. True - Dexter Grove
  6. Juggling Om - Blind Man's Sun
  7. Space (Live) - Inasense
  8. Breakfast At Volo's (Live) - Deep Banana Blackout
  9. Forward (Live) - Baaba Seth
  10. One Fine Day - Refried Confusion
  11. Rover (Live) - Native

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  1. Home Grown, Vol. 2: Smokin' Jams

Album Description

Compilations from the Home Grown Music Network have become a fast tradition. Fans love `em because HGMN CDs are chock full of great music they've never heard before. It's a trust thing. Sifting through mailbags of CDs and press kits they receive daily, the Home Grown crew discard bushels of schwag before uncovering the few kind nuggets potent enough to rock the world of their music savvy listeners. Bands love `em too. Not only is it an honor to be invited into the HGMN (less than 10% of the applicants survive the rigorous criteria for high grade music and regional touring), its good exposure. Damn good. The HGMN sends out thousands of promotional CDs to radio stations and the press, and mails over 150,000 catalogs a year to its rapidly growing, international fan base. Home Grown 4 keeps the tradition going strong with arguably its best compilation to date. From the hot funk of Deep Banana Blackout and Wise Monkey Orchestra's swanky So-Cal rhythms to the world beat soul of Baaba Seth and Gordon Stone's banjo jazz, the common denominator isn't -style-, it's -approach-. HGMN bands `jam.' simple as that. Just ask fans of The Big Wu, Stir Fried, Inasense, Native, Refried Confusion, and Dexter Grove. Better yet, pick up Home Grown 4 - then you'll be jammin' too.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Jaw dropping jams.......2003-06-27

The compilation CD is fantastic. There are some definite high points, although even the low points are delectable pieces of song writing, pure jamming, and musicianship. Here are some of my high points for this album:

Format:
Song title (Group): Review

Break Of Day (The Big Wu): As the other reviewers point out, this is the highest high point of the CD. Guitar work is sheer genius. To heck with over produced guitar "gods". This guy has good old fashioned talent and a fine sense of lyrical playing. The kind from the neighborhood guitar virtuoso that lived down the block whom you always envied. Reminiscent of Trey Anastasio. Very lyrical and emotional playing with a groovy but simple chord sequence that the bass player keeps interesting.

Marist (Stir Fried): Country influenced rock that might have been very apropos on a Grateful Dead CD. Would do Garcia proud.

Sunday Driver (Gordon Stone): Blistering bluegrass. I mean, seriously, blistering. Red hot. The banjo just doesn't quit. And who the heck is that bass player? I get shivers listening to some of his lines.

Breakfast at Volo's (Deep Banana Blackout): Funky. I swear this sounds like Macy Gray, but it's better. Imagine Macy Gray in a jamming band. It's funky. And it rocks.

Forward (Baaba Seth): Excellent groovy jam.

One Fine Day (Refried Confusion): Another great jam which would feel right at home on a Phish album.

All the songs on this album are just wonderful, even the ones I didn't mention it. I bought this CD on a lark, and it was worth every penny.

4 out of 5 stars If not only for The Big WU.......2002-01-01

I want to begin by saying this Cd is an excellent aray of various "jambands" that are probably coming to your town very soon. The best song is "break of day" by The Big Wu. They never put this track out on a studio album and I think it is the best song they have ever written. The other tracks are ok, with a few highlights by Baaba Seth and Inansense. The Deep Banana Blackout's track also jams pretty hard. If you do not have these tracks yet, this is a great way to get acuainted with some really cool bands.

5 out of 5 stars Home Grown 4.......2001-03-23

One of the best mixes of jammin' music I've heard in a while. It rivals some of my own burned CD's. With The Big Wu, Deep Banana Blackout, Inasense, and others, you can't go wrong with this album. And the sound quality is great too!

5 out of 5 stars Ecletic Variety of Good Tunes.......2000-10-22

I'm not sure what the above reviews are all about, but this is a compilation of many bands. It's an excellent variety of good tunes by some really tight bands. If you enjoy "jam" bands and have a fixin for funk, bluegrass, or just dig live music, this is a really nice cd.

4 out of 5 stars

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  1. The Pursuit of Happiness ~ B.K. Diaz
  2. Planet of the Popboomerang: A Global Pop Compilaton ~ Various Artists
  3. Smash Hits: Party Mix ~ Various Artists
  4. EP ~ Five Star Iris
  5. self-untitled ~ Stuart Davis
  6. Great White Hoax
  7. The Radio 1 Sessions ~ Dreadzone
  8. Live at the Twilight ~ Rob Tognoni
  9. Cobblestone Runway/Grand Opera Lane (Import) ~ Ron Sexsmith
  10. See This Through and Leave ~ The Cooper Temple Clause

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Bolling: Suite for Flute & Jazz Piano Trio

Complete 1936-1941 Columbia Recordings ~ Count Basie

In Concert ~ Soprano Summit

Bye Bye Blackbird ~ Keith Jarrett

Wrecking Your Neck ~ Overkill

A Grande Dama Da Viola ~ Helena Meirelles

Compositions/Improvisations ~ Miya Masaoka

Morning Meditation ~ Amelia Cuni

Songs from a Bad Hat ~ Mauro

History of J-Rock a Billy Since 1981 ~ Various Artists