One Big Town
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Studio album by Greg Brown | ||||
Released | 1989 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 40:34 | |||
Label | Red House | |||
Producer | Greg Brown, Bo Ramsey | |||
Greg Brown chronology | ||||
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One Big Town is an album by American folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown, released in 1989.
History
It is Brown's first in a long association with Bo Ramsey as producer and instrumentalist. In an interview with Roy Kasten for No Depression magazine, Brown said of Ramsey: "We had met a long time before we played together; we both had bands in town, late '70s or early '80s. We talked a little, Bo had some idea that we should do something. He had heard one of my records and said he thought it really needed work... Bo has really taught me to enjoy the studio. Nine-tenths of what we do is live, but it's a different approach; it's relaxed and thoughtful. I never really thought of making a record before then."[1]
Reception
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AllMusic's William Ruhlman wrote: "One Big Town is not a subtle album by any means, but it is an impassioned one, even if you worry that its creator might be ready to quit the music business and retire to some remote farm by the end of it."[2]
Track listing
All song by Greg Brown.
- "The Way They Get Themselves Up" – 2:15
- "The Monkey" – 4:26
- "One Cool Remove" – 3:01
- "Back Home Again" – 3:58
- "Just Live" – 3:17
- "One Big Town" – 6:14
- "Lotsa Kindsa Money" – 3:58
- "Things Go On" – 4:40
- "America Will Eat You" – 4:56
- "Tell Me It's Gonna Be Alright" – 3:49
Personnel
- Greg Brown – vocals, guitar
- Bo Ramsey – guitar, background vocals
- Bob Thompson – saxophone
- Radoslav Lorković – keyboards, background vocals
- Rick Cicalo – bass
- Steve Hayes – drums
Production
- Produced by Greg Brown and Bo Ramsey
- Engineered by Tom Tatman
- Mixed by Tom Tucker
- Photography by Laurel Cazin
References
- v
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- 44 & 66
- The Iowa Waltz
- In the Dark with You
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- One More Goodnight Kiss
- One Big Town
- Down in There
- Dream Café
- Bathtub Blues
- The Poet Game
- Further In
- Slant 6 Mind
- Over and Under
- Covenant
- Milk of the Moon
- Honey in the Lion's Head
- The Evening Call
- Freak Flag
- Hymns to What Is Left
- One Night
- The Live One
- Down in the Valley: Barn Aid Benefit Concert
- Live at the Black Sheep
- In the Hills of California
- Yellow Dog
- Hacklebarney
- Friend of Mine
- If I Had Known: Essential Recordings, 1980-96