Search - Dan Baird :: Buffalo Nickel

Dan Baird strikes again

Charles Hughes | Madison, WI United States | 10/10/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Can this guy go wrong? After making great records with The Georgia Satellites, and then making the great "Love Songs" record, he strikes back with his as-of-this-point latest record, another slice of biting Americana. Contains the best song he ever wrote: "Cumberland River." Also contains "Lil Bit," one of the hardest rockers in recent memory. Great solid record from a vastly underappreciated musician."

Dan takes three

Charles Hughes | 07/23/2000

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I so wanted to love this album. Love Songs... is an all-time favourite, and I snapped up Buffalo Nickel the week it came out. Sure enough, it has some fine songs - Younger Face, Li'l Bit - a true gem in Cumberland River and a deliciously silly hidden bonus. Somehow though, it doesn't hang together as it should, and the freshness and sparkle that make Love Songs... such fun are missing. Paradoxically, what's supposed to be a dirtier, more 'live-sounding' style makes the whole thing sound more studied and homogeneous. (And if they wanted a live sound, what are they doing fading songs out?)Oh yes, and someone should tell Dan he can't write slow songs. The ballads on the Satellites' albums were seldom better than embarrassing, and Hell to Pay and (especially) Hit Me Like a Train here are just dreadful. His sly, sideways-looking Southern wit needs an accompaniment that similarly light on its feet, and sustained chords and ponderous basslines just don't work for him.All this sounds more negative than a 60 per cent score deserves. Dan merely suffers from trying to follow a minor classic and not quite succeeding. All the same, there's plenty to enjoy here."

True American Rock and Roll

G. S. Fazakas | South Africa | 04/14/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Dan Baird epitomizes what true American Rock and Roll is. Watch out Adams, Mellencamp and Springsteen, this man can rock!
If it was only for his version of Tony Joe White's " Hush" I would have bought this album. I have practically every recording of this song,Tony Joe's, Deep Purple,Kula Shaker etc.but Baird captures the gritty emotion that I think White wanted in the 60's with this,I mean he even guests on the track.
However every track rock's, even the slow ones, and the " hidden " track harkens back to Baird's Country roots.
I hope to get hold of more music by this immensely neglected musician, allready owing all his Georgia Satellites output aswell( they don't rock as much as they did with him in the band anymore ) and eagerly awaiting his live album " Redneck Savant " on Blue Buffalo Records."