Above Ground & Verticle

Pinetops | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 13, 2000)
• Original Release Date: December 8, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Soundproof/Monolyth
• ASIN: B00000G2C2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #216,067 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. So Lonesome I Could Fly

2. Evil Town

3. Shotgun Baby

4. Sweet William the Cop

5. Lottery

6. Underneath Your Wheels

7. Hello Down There

8. Jesus Spoke

9. Good Luck Charm

10. Birds of Prey

11. Linger

12. Movie Star

13. Widow's Peak

14. Bonus Track

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars for fans of the silos, gbv, buddy miller, and sunday drives., March 2, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Above Ground & Verticle (Audio CD)

a beautiful backroad drive through everything that is romantic about north carolina, the north carolina and south that is real and is there but is so so elusive.

roll down your car windows, pull of the interstate and into the real world that runs parallel on those state roads, through those little towns, that are real, with real lives, and beauty, and pain and where the sun doth shine.

jeff foster has captured it as Mr. Frazier captured it in Cold Mountain. so go ahead and sell that car of yours with the automatic transmission and the automatic window roller downers and get yourself a stick shift. roll your own windows down, take the rural route, but mostly just listen, and just maybe you too will see and hear whats out there --- its beautiful and it will make you want to share it with your best friends.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars chilling, high-toned vocals will knock your socks off, February 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Above Ground & Verticle (Audio CD)

I walked in to the local Blockbuster Music store the other day and saw this album sitting on a sampler table for people to listen. I remembered seeing the album reviewed in No Depression magazine a few months back so I decided to give it a listen. It is extremely rare for me to buy a CD after the first listen, but this one was different. Powerful, elegant, straight-forward. Songs like "So Lonesome I Could Fly," "Linger," "Hello Down There," and "Birds of Prey" make this album one to remember. Well worth the listen!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars solid, January 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Above Ground & Verticle (Audio CD)

The latest project from Winston-Salem music scene fixture Jeffrey Dean Foster is a solid mix of what we know today as alt.country (or No Depression or twangcore or whatever you want to call it) and Tom Petty-style power pop. Most of the arrangements are unadventurous but pleasing; the real strength lies in Foster's powerful songs, which reveal a lot more depth than those by most practicioners of this style. The potential for greatness is there. Solid, enjoyable stuff for fans of Six String Drag, Whiskeytown, early Wilco, Blue Mountain, etc.