Search - Garnet Rogers :: Night Drive

Good for Night Drives or any other time...

tgfabthunderbird | York, PA United States | 01/06/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"...after reading some other reviews of Garnet and Stan Rogers' music, I was quickly reminded of a phone conversation I'd had with their mother some years ago. I was working at a radio station in Massachusetts and we'd gotten a copy of "Night Drive." I'd not been able to find it in the Boston area (all 50 copies HMV had went like that!), and the number I had was to their home.



Really nice lady...now, this recording, which I finally did get my hands on a short time later is a great example of Garnet's versatility. There's folk tunes, "Seeds of Hope," with David Tamulevich's backing vocals is a wonderful song, and the cover of Greg Brown's "Jesus and Elvis" is excellent.



A couple of ballsy rock tunes as well, "Never So Lonely," which takes a hard look at domestic violence and "Colliertown" rips the coal industry for a mine disaster.



There's a lot of songs of life in the recordings, and they are simple and direct. The 10+ minute title track ends the album beautifully.



I listen to this fairly often, and I always take it when I'm on the road, "Night Drive" or not."