Music CD - The Subdudes: Street Symphony

	Music CD: Street Symphony Artist: The Subdudes List Price: $17.98 Our Price: $10.00 Your Save: $ 7.98 ( 44% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Back Porch
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Tracks: 1. Fountain Of Youth 2. Poor Man's Paradise 3. Stranger 4. Thorn In Her Side 5. No Man 6. Fair Weather Friend 7. Brother Man 8. Half Of the Story 9. Work Clothes 10. Absolutely 11. I'm In Your Town 12. Street Symphony
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0094638870821 Label: Back Porch Manufacturer: Back Porch Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Back Porch Release Date: 2007-08-28 Studio: Back Porch
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: It's All Good Comment: I had only heard one track off this CD when I bought it. It's a really nice feeling when you play a CD for the first time and EVERY track is as good or better than the one that prompted you to buy it in the first place. The only thing missing was the oyster po boy. Customer Rating: Summary: An Artistic Romp Comment: I can tell you I like it, but I do not feel competent to review the music. It is highly entertaining, and plays to suggestion, or suggestive feelings. They really are below the surface and make contact with what would otherwise remain silent. I suppose that's what's good about really good art. Customer Rating: Summary: Street Symphony: a celebration of life Comment: This is one of the most touching and uplifting compilations I've ever heard. It appreciates and loves one of our truly special cities. I'm looking forward to being there in April, and to seeing the Subdudes in Princeton this coming weekend since their concert in the DC area is sold out. Customer Rating: Summary: A little Mardi Gras Comment: With a whole lot of soul is what you hear in this a wonderful represenation of the music that is associated with New Orleans; along the way the struggle and the hope post Katrina. Listen to Poor Mans Paradise. It makes trouble almost palatable. Customer Rating: Summary: Quite Simply, The Finest Band In America Comment: Need I say more! Unmatched by any group playing today for sustained soulful excellence. Great songwriting matches up with beautiful musicanship to create a sound I can only describe as heavenly. The boys are truly touched by the Hand of The Almighty! Try listening to any one of their albums and not being moved close to tears. "Symphony" is their best work since "Annunciation" and that was a Masterpiece. Crawl on your hands and knees, if need be, to see them live. You will not believe music like this exists. And boys if you read this, get to St. Louis as soon as you can. We are waiting!!! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Despite the title of the New Orleans-based Subdudes' previous album, Behind the Levee was recorded pre-Katrina. A lot of water has passed under the bridge--literally and figuratively--since then, which impacts the sound of the band's first post-hurricane release. Although the reformed group's approach has always tempered upbeat material with a darker, more soulful edge, their sixth studio release, Street Symphony, exudes a heightened mood of bittersweet melancholy. Even Steve Amedee's ever-present tambourine seems to be less frisky as the disc unwinds at its own rather subdued (no pun intended) pace. Lead vocalist/songwriter Tommy Malone has seldom sounded more committed, wrapping his dusky voice around a vibrant set of originals with lyrics that occasionally reference New Orleans' most horrific experience. Songs such as "I'm Your Town" ("who's going to save me?") and the deceptively jaunty melody of "Poor Man's Paradise"--the story of an impoverished, homeless man whose appreciation of life's little things, like the music of Fats Domino, gets him through impossibly difficult times--impart a solemn but hopeful acceptance. The "her" in "Thorn in Her Side" refers to the Statue of Liberty, as John Magnie's accordion adds unusual sorrow to Malone's controlled anger. The beautifully bluesy "No Man" is arguably Malone's most revelatory and touching love song, performed with the proud resignation that courses through every track of this heartfelt, thought-provoking, and emotionally moving set. --Hal Horowitz