Night Flares
Download links and information about Night Flares by Greg MacPherson Band. This album was released in 2005 and it belongs to Rock, Pop, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist genres. It contains 11 tracks with total duration of 48:33 minutes.
Artist: | Greg MacPherson Band |
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Release date: | 2005 |
Genre: | Rock, Pop, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist |
Tracks: | 11 |
Duration: | 48:33 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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1. | Two Haircuts In One | 3:53 |
2. | Kingston | 3:27 |
3. | Cutting Room | 3:49 |
4. | The Show Is In the Basement | 3:44 |
5. | Pressure | 4:25 |
6. | Hotel Motel | 3:03 |
7. | Southern Lights | 3:51 |
8. | California | 6:23 |
9. | Blind Date | 6:00 |
10. | Man Overboard | 4:15 |
11. | The Sun Beats Down | 5:43 |
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[Edit]The Canadian indie G7 Welcoming Committee leans primarily towards political D.I.Y. punk and hardcore (the label name is a sarcastic reference to the riots that greeted the G7 meetings in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2002), which makes their signing of Winnipeg-based roots-rocker Greg MacPherson an admirable refusal to bow to punk orthodoxy. Much closer to Bruce Cockburn or even Gordon Lightfoot than to any of his labelmates, MacPherson is an old-school folk-rocker, and Night Flares is uncomplicated stuff: fans of John Hiatt, Graham Parker's post-Rumour albums, and even Bruce Springsteen will recognize a familiar musical and lyrical style. MacPherson's vocal style is not what anyone would call pretty, being basically a raspy bark that doesn't change much between mid-tempo rockers like "Hotel Motel" and slower, more intimate material like the spookily atmospheric "California," and his songwriting is similarly meat-and-potatoes, skirting around political themes alongside more traditional personal topics, with some catchy tunes and occasional memorable lines. But the fact remains: the essential musical difference between Greg MacPherson and the likes of Red Rider and Bryan Adams really isn't that big.