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- Date Released: March 1, 2006
- Genre: Country/Folk
- Style: Alt-Country, Indie Rock
- Label: ROIR / Virtual
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We Say...
The latest effort from alt-country's most prodigious mainstay, Gold Brick finds Langford delivering a set of simmering songs that fuse the better elements of country and rock. "All Roads Lead Back to Me" is sewn up in silvery Soft Boys guitars, the cover of Procol Harum's "Salty Dog", with its rushing chamber strings and dramatic piano is a moody set piece that recalls recent vintage Elvis Costello. Langford's voice has taken on an aged, leathery quality, and his impassioned renderings of these songs gives added urgency to his always searching lyrics.
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They Say...
Despite hailing from Great Britain (Wales, to be exact), the 2006 solo release by longtime Mekons leader Jon Langford, Gold Brick, is a prime slice of Americana. The twangy strains of alt-country sound as if they were straight out of the South of the U.S., but Langford's accent is a dead giveaway that this is not your average, or ordinary, release from the aforementioned genre. Although he's issued solo releases on a semi-regular basis since 1995, Langford's label, ROIR, calls Gold Brick "the proper follow up to 1998's 'Skull Orchard'." And in a way, they're right -- it's an incredibly cohesive and strong set of tunes, in a Wilco-meets-Neil Young (circa the latter's Comes a Time and Prairie Wind releases) kind of way. Consisting of country-flavored tracks ("Buy It Now"), rockers (the album opening "Little Bit of Help," "All Roads Lead Back to Me"), and symphonic ballads ("Salty Dog"), Langford is at the top of his game throughout, as pals from both the Pine Valley Cosmonauts and the Waco Brothers lend a hand. The honest-to-goodness traditional sounds of Gold Brick is a much welcomed arrival -- especially in the midst of the early 21st century quagmire of American Idol-esque studio enhanced Muzak.
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| 01. |  |
Little Bit of Help |
2:58 |
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| 02. | |
Workingman's Paalace |
3:00 |
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| 03. | |
Invisible Man |
3:50 |
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| 04. | |
Buy It Now |
3:11 |
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| 05. | |
All Roads Lead Back to Me |
2:55 |
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| 06. | |
Anything Can Happen |
2:18 |
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| 07. | |
Gold Brick |
3:24 |
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| 08. | |
Salty Dog |
3:39 |
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| 09. | |
Gorilla and the Maiden |
2:02 |
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| 10. | |
Dreams of Leaving |
3:40 |
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| 11. | |
Tall Ships |
3:17 |
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| 12. | |
Lost in America |
5:18 |
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12 Total Tracks, 39:32 Total Length
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Credits
- Jon Langford - Guitar // Jon Langford - Guitar // Jon Langford - Guitar // Jon Langford - Guitar // Jon Langford - Vocals // Jon Langford - Vocals // Jon Langford - Vocals // Jon Langford - Vocals // Jon Langford - Producer // Jon Langford - Producer // Jon Langford - Producer // Jon Langford - Producer // John Rice - Dobro // John Rice - Guitar // John Rice - Mandolin // Pat Brennan - Organ // Pat Brennan - Piano // Alan Doughty - Bass // Alan Doughty - Vocals (Background) // Ken Sluiter - Producer // Dan Massey - Drums // Danielle Henderson - Photography // Jean Cook - Violin
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