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Music CD - Shawn Mullins: Honeydew
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Music CD: Honeydew
Artist: Shawn Mullins
List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $7.97
Your Save: $ 9.01 ( 53% )
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Manufacturer: Vanguard Records
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Tracks:
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1. All In My Head
2. Home
3. The Ballad of Kathryn Johnston
4. Homeless Joe
5. Leaving All Your Troubles Behind
6. Fraction of a Man
7. See That Train
8. For America
9. Cabbagetown
10. Nameless Faces
11. Song of the Self (Chapter 2)
12. Rewind the Years
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0015707983020
Label: Vanguard Records
Manufacturer: Vanguard Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Vanguard Records
Release Date: 2008-03-11
Studio: Vanguard Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Shawn Mullins
Comment: I was thoroghly disappointed in the music. The cd hower came in perfect shape and quite quickly.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Shawn Mullins Rocks
Comment: HoneyDew is SWEEEET!!!- Every song is sung and played with heart and soul - It's Shawn Mullins at his finest - You will eat it up!!
Elizabeth Fairleigh
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Summary: Shawn Mullin
Comment: Shawn Mullins continues his ability to produce consistently excellent albums -- with catchy lyrics, strong hook, and interesting vocals.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't bother
Comment: I just can't see how Shawn Mullins can have a following - except for maybe some of the ladies who go see him play in Atlanta bars. I just cannot agree with other reviewers that he is a quality songwriter. I find lyrics such as Homeless Joe and for that matter his entire catalogue of work to be very immature. His melodies are forgettable too. Does anyone find themselves humming the tune of any of his songs? I don't think so. I went to (and then walked out of) two performances of his with three friends of mine on the Cayamo cruise in February 2008. He featured some of these songs before we walked. We all found him to be very arrogant and egotistical on stage, telling stories of his travels and living like a hobo as if he expects - no demands - to be revered like Woody Guthrie for rubbing elbows with the common man. You can hear that pomposity in the lyrics and perspective of the songs on this CD. Give me a break kid - your time is not the Great Depression or dust bowl days! Bums are pretty much just bums these days and you just can't manufacture so much romance for them. On guitar he strummed a few different chords with great force and determination on every song and demonstrated no nuance or style at all. This is not five star talent to my liking, but I must say his fans were devoted so there is a quality there apparently that just doesn't get through to me. That is why I gave two stars instead on one for this review.
A friend gave me this CD assuming that since I had been on the Cayamo cruise I would enjoy his music. The best I can say is that he does have a talented guitar player who performs with him. Sorry, but there are so many talented singer songwriters out there who have a deserved national following and I don't see how this CD will begin to propel Shawn into their ranks. He doesn't seem to know if he wants to be making country, folk or rock music...though he clearly desires to be viewed as some folk hero. From my perspective he better stay with marketing himself as country so that simple lyrics about simple folks could bring him some sales from a country music fan base who don't expect more.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Another great album from shawn mullins
Comment: Once again shawn has put put out an album that will touch your heart. fantastic sound from a great songwriter. AA++
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Editorial Reviews:
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SHAWN MULLINS ON THE SONGS OF HONEYDEW:
All in My Head : The song s theme of self-examination belies the fact that it was written by Mullins and Hansen as a prospective theme song for the sitcom Scrubs. The original 2002 recording was lighter and more uptempo than this powerful new version, in which Mullins delivers an arching falsetto vocal in the chorus. When we FIRST started the recording, I was having a block, and Gerry said, Shawn, I m tellin you, that stuff's all in your head, just like that song we wrote. And I said, Man, we oughta dig that up. The next thing I knew, we were all sitting around working it up in a whole different groove.
Home : The first verse is about my dear friend Melissa Hadley, a musician in Athens and the funniest woman I ever knew, who died at 38 of ovarian cancer. The second verse came to me as I was looking at old pictures of Cabbagetown, a section of Atlanta that was once inhabited by Irish immigrant mill workers. In one photo, there s a boy sitting in front of a dimestore, looking as emaciated as a POW. I got to thinkin that it wasn t that long ago, right here in my hometown.
The Ballad of Kathryn Johnston : Literally ripped from the headlines, the song is about an aged woman living in a crime-infested Atlanta neighborhood who got a gun to protect herself. When intruders broke down her door one night, the woman started firing, not realizing her assailants were police officers, who, it turned out, had targeted the wrong house in search of drug dealers. Reading Dylan s Chronicles inspired me to look for news stories, and this one really grabbed me. So little was said about it because that s how things are in rough neighborhoods, which is what I meant by the line, everything stays the same. But it all changed for me, because I connected with her. Sometimes I don t feel safe, especially after we got cleaned out last year. But we don t have a gun in the house. Even though I ve got a little army in me [after college, Mullins was commissioned in the U.S. Army Reserve], I don t wanna live that way.
Homeless Joe : There really is a Homeless Joe here in Atlanta, along with Shorty, Blind Bob, Wolf and other strumming, homeless troubadours. They re living through their art, even though their lives are tough, without enough to eat or a place to sleep, and they re viewed as winos on the street. The song is a celebration of those people who are following their bliss, even in the most difficult of circumstances. I ve always connected with them; I see them as modern-day examples of the wanderer.
Leaving All Your Troubles Behind : This is the story of a girl who lives in a town in the North Georgia Mountains where there were once textile mills, but now the biggest industry is trailer meth, cooked up by the grandkids of moonshiners. There are a lot of people in small towns in the South that try to escape, and most of them wind up coming back. But not this girl; she s seen enough to know that s not where she belongs.
Fraction of a Man : A modern-day traveling salesman finds himself in Biloxi, and suddenly it hits him What am I doing with my life? That s a really common thing for a lot of middle-aged American men, who want to follow their bliss and really go for it, but somehow they never do. This one leaves you with a reality check, with the
alcoholism, the loneliness, and the nomadic existence. It d make a bummer of a movie.
See That Train : I love trains. My grandfather, father and brother-in-law all worked for the railroad, and I miss all the stories I used to hear. The song is about a hobo whose girl has left him asleep under a water tower and taken the train to Birmingham. I feel so unhip, because all the stuff I m interested in is
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