Anyone that loves that small town sound that almost gifts you with a homemade hot apple pie with the music, ...will love Andrew Eversole's 'Creature' release. The generous inclusion of 14 tracks of really good music is hometown Sunday supper, bigtime. Literally, a swell of well-being and fond memory embraced me as I felt the music bring me back to a safe and fun family outing at the county fair, where we would likely hear a band just like this enjoy their knee-slapping, square dancing, gingham wearing crowd as much as the crowd enjoyed them. Of course, all while my grandma win's 2nd place again for her blueberry preserves. With as much energy as one can expect in a bluegrass, banjo pickin' collection of tunes, 'Creature' offers up a couple to a few non-compliant tracks that were interesting and, for me, very likeable. For instance...imagine a hillbilly influenced by far eastern music culture, that loves Santana... making music. Well, you got The Red Blues on track 5 and The History of Man on track 13. Weird huh? Well..that's what I love about independent music. "Ain't No Use Taking a Bath Alone" was just plain fun - with that Mississippi depression era sound and some creative lyrics moving around with some pretty basic banjo work, not that Andrew is basic by any means. The fiddle work is marvelous and I can see some wonderful things happening on stage. After the sleepy intro to Amerika the Beautiful - I was jarred awake with another surprise and an all but common rendition of the traditional America the Beautiful. Wish the spoken word was a bit louder on this one, because I live upstairs, and my downstairs neighbor complained because to get the vocals loud enough to distinguish, the bass was really a thumper :) Sorry Sonny. Great point, awesome message. When the raw, authentic vocals of Sarah Strable finally joins in with the musically correct vocal melody of the classic version - a hale of Copter, Cop'per and raw street sounds played in the background in obvious realism of the shape this country has acquired. Lending a bit of educated sarcasm to the story. Touching. Katy Hill on track 14, led us out with a nice repetitive back scratch typical of banjo solo. :) I dug it...dig it?I've got my fave track The Red Blues loaded on our myspace player for listening. Go Gitcha some - and buy his CD!
Go check out Andrew and his music and collection of backing bands The Family Eversole and Certified Organic :)
http://www.andreweversole.com/
Reviewed by: Annette Warner
