Music CD - The Felice Brothers: The Felice Brothers

	Music CD: The Felice Brothers Artist: The Felice Brothers List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $8.99 Your Save: $ 4.99 ( 36% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Team Love
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Tracks: 1. Little Ann 2. Greatest Show On Earth 3. Frankie's Gun! 4. Goddamn You, Gim 5. Wonderful Life 6. Don't Wake The Scarecrow 7. Take This Bread 8. Saint Stephen's Hand 9. Love Me Tenderly 10. Ruby Mae 11. Murder By Mistletoe 12. Whiskey In My Whiskey 13. Helen Fry 14. Radio Song 15. Tip Your Way
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0810430012722 Label: Team Love Manufacturer: Team Love Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Team Love Release Date: 2008-03-04 Studio: Team Love
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: amazing Comment: this is an amazing album! if you haven't experienced them yet, you need to give them a try! Customer Rating: Summary: Women, Guns, and Death Comment: I was blown away, as is Eleanor, by "Whiskey in my Whiskey" the first time I heard it on WNCW 88.7 FM. Then two days later I heard "Bang Bang Bang Went Frankie's gun." They covered the front from odltime Appalachian Murder Ballad to Celtic Gangster music so effortlessly that I thought it was two different bands. The Felice Brothers have a great sound. The themes are as dark as the album cover, but there is humor and joy in big doses throughout. If you like anything from Hank Williams, Ryan Adams, The Clancy Brothers, or The Band you will love the Felice Brothers. Customer Rating: Summary: What's Old Is New Again - And It's Great Again Comment: Stumbled across these guys through the Drive-By Truckers (what a contrast). Awesome. I'm old enough to remember Dylan & The Band's Basement Tapes release and some of these could have been lost cuts. Other cuts are totally different. While some will say the sound and phrasing is just a Dylan rip-off, I say that it's been so long since anyone's had this kind of sound, that it's fresh all over again. Varied instruments, changing themes, great lyrics, and an ultra low-fi production approach that fits perfectly. Almost hope these guys don't make enough money to affort too much studio time. Customer Rating: Summary: GREATNESS Comment: This band is great. And this CD is great. Though it is true there are many great band/albums, it is also true about the Felice Brothers. As good as the CD is, the live shows are even better. This is perhaps becuase the band takes their simple and heartfelt approach to their music and turn the dials up to eleven in their live shows. I watched the band live once, and plan to see them again next month. They opened for a favorite band of mine, and I indeed thought their performance was better. I had never heard of them at the time, and was surely awestruck at their energy and variety. The lyrics are deep and thoughtful, and one can't help but get drawn into the songs. What's especially nice is the fact that three of the brothers sing on the CD which gives the album a varied taste and style---from folksy tunes, to country, blues, and even some new orleans-styled instrumentation. As musicians they are probably at best average which is true of their their vocal technique...but that merely enhances the appeal of the tunes' subject matter/mood. The paradox is that while listening to this album or "Tonight at the Arizona" you get a genuine sense of their authenticity, it doesn't quite fill any particular template of musicianship. Here you have brothers working together in a unique sibling partnership, taking their personal experiences in rural America, and shaping it into their music. Though many artists in a folk/Americana label sometimes seem like they are artificial or assuming their qualities for the sake of the genre or selling records, in the Felice Brothers' case, I get the opposite sensation--this is for real. They give you THEIR music---popular opinion be damned! None of their tunes get old. And each song is different. Though it appears through their lyrics that they sometimes, to a small extent, repeat content/themes (such as a predisposition with guns), it works out just fine. I recommend this album highly becuase it doesn't get old...none of their stuff does. Listening to this music you get a sense of each band members' personality, and this is hard to come by in today's world of over-produced music in EVERY genre. This band manages to be laid-back and not over-complicated yet they jump out at you and sometimes startle you with their songcraft. I look forward again to seeing this band live, as anyone should do given the chance. This music is thoroughly a delight---a rare find these days. Customer Rating: Summary: Buy the damn CD and go see them live! Comment: These guys opened for the Drive-By Truckers at a recent concert. I had never heard of them but stood there, dumbfounded, as they made their way through an amazing set. I have been to many, many shows (I'm 50), and that set was by far one of the best I have ever seen. I bought their CDs immediately. It's hard to describe their music: "roots" and "folk" seems so overused and meaningless, as does "Americana." And those terms really don't capture their sound anyway. I'll characterize it as post-punk organic mountain/folk music and hope that doesn't scare you off. And ignore the "it sounds like Bob Dylan to me" comments. That's really lazy and superficial. They do to "folk" music what Hank did to country music. Beautiful music with mostly painful and bleak lyrics. You need to listen. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: The Felice Brothers' self-titled American debut is a collection of songs originally recorded to sell to make ends meet on the streets of New York. The band made these "field recordings" wherever they could: an abandoned cafeteria, a broken down school bus, a chicken coop, a derailed train, and under a bridge. In these tales of murder, pathos, lust, and love, you'll find an honest new brand of American storytelling and song. "Scruffy and scratched Americana that recalls Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and early Springsteen" - Time Out London. "The Felice Brothers' Catskills folk is rough around the edges and intoxicating. Ryan Adams, eat your heart out" - Metroland / Best Of 2007. "Backwoods Americana is all the rage, but this band of brothers is a cut above the rest" - The Sun UK (4 stars).