So here it is... posted for all to read...

Have the others sent theirs in as well?
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When I at down to rewrite this, the first thing I had to do was find the CD. I knew it was either in the car, in the cd changer downstairs, the CD changer in the living room, in my gig gear with my other "Between The Sets" music, or wait, did I loan it to any number of people that I know who'd also really dig this CD??? Turns out my "Herself" had scooped it for her portable CD player without telling me a couple of days ago, and I hadn't noticed yet. She may find she has to buy her own copy.

From the first few moments of my first listen to track one, I have to say I was hooked on the sound of "One Last Cold Kiss" from Greenhouse. The voice echoing the fiddle just seemed to reach to some place deep inside me, and give me a good shake. Maybe it's that the fiddle sound is very reminiscent of (without being a rip-off of) early Steeleye Span, which is NEVER a bad thing. Maybe it's that later on in the CD their version of John Barleycorn, which is the gentlest version I've ever heard, made me sweetly nostalgic for an annual Harvest Party that I used to attend with great food, drink, song, and fellowship. The version by Traffic should have been this good. There's certainly a lot that is familiar on this CD, but in a comforting way. By being 'just a little bit inventive', it steers far clear of that "I've-heard-that-before-jump-to-the-next-track" sensation that is all to commonly evoked by the cds of many 'trad' bands. Dark Eyed Sailor, damaged or not by 'broadsides' (??) has the pleasure of being both very familiar but still interpreted in a fresh way that will have you wanting to sing along even though you may have thought yourself previously sick to death of the song. My first time thought the CD I was tempted to skip large chunks of the tunes though. Personally I just don't much dig traditional instrumental stuff. Halfway through the 2nd time of part B, I just find that tunes all start to sound the same to me. Ones Last Cold Kiss might very well be changing me. Driving home late from a gig a few nights ago, I found myself trying to set a new land speed record while playing "The Fox's Revenge" and "The Rose Among The Heather" over and over and over. So even my CAR likes this CD a lot!

Just buy it. You won't be sorry.

Music this good is a steal at twice the price.

Clinton Hammond