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Above Ground & Verticle

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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.

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!

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.

This CD is JUST PLAIN AWESOME! The songs are so true, and they have a tone to them that just makes you want to sing with them. I love this cd, not just because one of the band members are my cousins...but because this CD is a WONDERFLY done CD with many different songs that touch the heart, and explain life...in a pretty way!