ALBUM:
Trail
TAYLOR USED:
615
SONG CLIPS:
Burden to Bear
28k | 56K
Going Home
28k | 56K
CONTACT INFO:
Bohemia Beat Records
2300 South Cook Street
Denver,
CO 80210
E-mail:
voxheart@ netstep.net
Web:
www. rounder. com/ bobeat/ Jimmy LaFave Home. htm
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Trail is a treasure trove of ragged roadhouse beauty from Jimmy LaFave, one of music's most emotive voices. This double CD's 30 tracks are culled
from more than nine years of LaFave performances ("Live, unreleased, and off the air"). What is startling is the soul-baring expressiveness of LaFave's
phrasing and the malleable texture of his voice. Whether it's a forlorn Okie folk ballad, a smoldering blues excursion, or one of the 12 Dylan songs he
reincarnates (rock critic Dave Marsh calls him "the best rock 'n' roll interpreter of Dylan songs ever"), LaFave lays it on the line every time.
This collection also includes nods to other key songwriting influences, including Bruce Springsteen and Woody Guthrie. LaFave equals their passion for
painting evocative pictures through music, and seamlessly weaves his own timeless tunes into the mix. This album achieves the kind of rare intimacy
that can take folk and roots-rock to sublime heights and deeply visceral depths.
"Jimmy LaFave has one of America's greatest voices, and this album is the story of what he has learned to do with it. It's a unique instrument,
with startling range and its own peculiar sense of gravity, liable to swoop in and wreck your expectations at any instant."
— Dave Marsh
"No one in rock 'n' roll sings with more passion and grit than this guy, and when LaFave wraps that amazing honeyed-whiskey voice around a
ballad it can send chills down your spine."
— Eric Fidler,
Associated Press
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