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Featured CD Review
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Chris Trapper
- Gone Again
(2005)
Some albums manage to be more than music, more than song or
sound. If you catch it right, and if you’re open to it, they are windows
into moments, and invitations to truth. No great Truth, mind you, other
than what it feels like to be on the road, or sitting in your backyard
on a warm day, or in love. Some albums are something more. Chris
Trapper’s Gone Again is such an album.
This project finds the Push Stars front man joining the Wolverine Jazz
Band, and is filled with a variety of clarinet counter-melodies and tuba
bass-lines. Without exception, the songs work. When combined with
Trapper’s expert songwriting and easy voice, the result is like nothing
else you’ve heard, and yet is like everything you already love. Some
songs bring to mind Cake or the Squirrel Nut Zippers, others Jack
Johnson, John Mayer or Toad the Wet Sprocket. Listeners of a slightly
earlier generation will recall Marc Cohn, David Wilcox, the Counting
Crows or even Tom Waits.
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