Released: 1992
Tracks: Jimmy Olsen’s Blues; What Time is it?; Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong; Forty or Fifty; Refrigerator Car; More Than She Knows; Two Princes; Off my Line; How Could You Want Him; Shinbone Alley/Hard to Exist
Best track: How Could You Want Him
Track to skip: Two Princes
Drat, my tape is playing too slow. It’s pretty annoying. Oh well. Been a few years since I listened to this and it’s really good. Jimmy Olsen’s Blues is a great opener and the change for middle section is way cool. I believe that the guitarist wrote most of the songs and that’s why the band kinda faded out after their 2nd album (he left before that tour). Singer Chris Barron has a distinctive voice, not really good or bad, but the other three guys (don’t know the names) are all really good players. I guess these guys were one of the first 90’s Jam Bands and they even have the ‘Obligatory John Popper Guest Spots’ on More Than She Knows & Off My Line. I think all Jam Bands need Popper somewhere on their first CD.
More Than She Knows is a tiny drop, but the first half of this album is consistently very good. All of them are really good songs. And then comes the Big Single, Two Princes, and it’s a really bad song. There aren’t any cool parts to it, the music is generic sounding and the lyrics are DUMB. I guess it was one of those ‘video hits’. Jimmy Olsen’s and Little Miss are MUCH better songs. Off My Line and Shinbone Alley aren’t as good as the others, but they’re still enjoyable. So really except for Two Princes, this album is really good. How Could You Want Him, Forty or Fifty, Jimmy Olsen’s and Little Miss are all excellent songs. I especially love How Could You Want Him; great song and it sounds a lot like Dah-veed. It really is too bad that they couldn’t keep it together; this is damn good for a debut album. If you are into Jam Bands then you should already own this. For the rest of you, if you like good songs & good playing check it out.
Rating: 91
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