More Bad News

Product Description:
More Bad News is the third Broadside Electric album. This Philadelphia band has spent 5 years researching and assembling a collection of folk music, ranging from English ballads to Klezmer, from Balkan dances to French hurdy-gurdy music. Then they've dragged it all out back and mercilessly smacked it around. Band Members are Tom Rhoads - Lead vocals, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, electric guitar, Appalachian dulcimer, whistles Jim Speer - Chapman Stick, recorders, saxophone, rauschpfeife, crumhorn, backing vocal Helene Zisook - Electric violin, acoustic violin, mandolin

Tracks:

Babylon
Lord Bateman
Bucimis
Silkie
The Spinning Wheel and The Bronze Axe
Pastures of Plenty
As I Roved Out
Gas Nign & Makedonsko Devojce
Sheath and Knife
J'ai Vu Le Loup
The World Turned Upside Down
Sugar Trade
Magellan

Album Description

More Bad News is the third Broadside Electric album. This Philadelphia band has spent 5 years researching and assembling a collection of folk music, ranging from English ballads to Klezmer, from Balkan dances to French hurdy-gurdy music. Then they've dragged it all out back and mercilessly smacked it around. Band Members are Tom Rhoads - Lead vocals, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, electric guitar, Appalachian dulcimer, whistles Jim Speer - Chapman Stick, recorders, saxophone, rauschpfeife, crumhorn, backing vocal Helene Zisook - Electric violin, acoustic violin, mandolin

Customer Reviews:

Third Time's a Charm for Broadside Electric.......2001-04-20

So named because of the grim nature of the Childe Ballads that the group loves to use, More Bad News was, for me, Broadside's first success in creating an album as a whole. The work takes you on a wonderful path through some very engaging songs. The three added bonus songs "The World Turned Upside Down", "Sugar Trade", and "Magellan" kind of break that flow for me, but they are some of my favorite Broadside songs, so I'm willing to let that go.

One of the real treats of this album is the careful attention to arranging. With Melissa gone from the band, Tom, Jim, and Helene were content to let things peter out. Fortunately, they still had some scheduled gigs to play and had to look to making songs work with just the three of them. Strangely, they really started to like what they were doing, and you can tell that on this album.

Another great addition to the Broadside sound comes with Jim Speer's discovery and use of the Chapman Stick (R), an instrument that allowed him to play both treble and bass simultaneously.

If you own only one Broadside album (and why would own only one!?!), it would be a tough call, but I would eventually suggest this one.

Folk music's best kept secret.......2000-12-12

All fans of Celtic folk and Britrock should take note of "More Bad News" ,a superlative effort in the genre by any measure. The bulk of the selections seems to be arrangements of traditional song, unavailable elsewhere in this form. The members deserve kudos for their work bringing this music to light, delivering with accomplished performance and subtle humor. Instrumentally superior to their previous efforts but vocally weaker. Singer Melissa Demian adds a guest showing, but not enough of one to satisfy die-hard Melissa fans like myself. Still, lead vocalist Tom Rhoads delivers well. All in all still an excellent recording and a must have for ballad junkies.

Average customer rating:

Another great blues album

Bad News Indeed.

Manufacturer: Arv
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Blues | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CADX98
Release Date: 2003-03-18

Tracks:

One More Annd I Gotta Go
She's Bad News
Cruisin' for a Bluesin'
Hard Liquor
Be My Shotgun
Leavin Fast
Fever In The Funkhouse
Messin' Round
When You See Me
Revvitup

Customer Reviews:

Another great blues album.......2005-11-23

I really enjoy the levity of their choice of music, I only wish the ablum was longer! But-hey not a problem, stack it in the CD player with the "Cruisin' for a Bluesin'" album and... Viola! Hours of great rock'n blues. [also look for their "Bad News-Aplooza" live album] Enjoy

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