Tells The Story

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Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 46:05

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not half bad

not-just-yeti

Storytelling songs, ranging from merely oddball to bizarre. My personal favorites: * The Cowboy Outlaw -- the story of a circus cadaver * Wastepaper-Basket Fire -- office emergency! * Drinking Bird -- an exceedingly dry-humor take on the old-timey song "The Cuckoo". Other topics include alien contact and chain letters. His voice and instrumentation are almost conventional, but definitely not quite. Overall, my recommends are tracks 3,5,7,8,9,10,12. With the remaining tracks, I found I kept hoping they were so bizarre they'd be funny, but I only found them pointless. Ymmv.

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Artist/songwriter Brian Dewan plays the electric Zither. These songs are more true to the old ballad tradition than many contemporary folk songs. He deals with dark material; disrespect for chain letters, 100-year-old cowboys put on display and the influence of a single copy of a record. It might not sound like folk music but it is. – Richard Meyer