Avoiding the Circus

Collin Herring (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• ASIN: B000EORU6Y
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #530,523 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

"You could consider the sound alt-country, but then you would be leaving out a lot of stuff: bombastic beats, rock riffage, punk attitude. Watching Collin Herring perform live, its hard to take your eyes away from the stage." Recorded entirely live so that Collin could achieve the "unproduced sound" he sought, the record was produced and engineered by Matt Pence (Centro-matic, The Polyphonic Spree, American Music Club) at his secluded studio south of Denton. Acclaimed by Harp Magazine as "one hell of a debut," Avoiding the Circus was declared Album of the Year by the Fort Worth Weekly, and Collin himself was simultaneously named Best New Artist (2003). The Star Telegrams Malcolm Mayhew also listed the album as one of the Top 5 Local Records of the Year, and his songs have been featured on compilation albums for the Midpoint Music Festival, Miles of Music and the North Texas New Music Festival.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great album, great artist, December 6, 2008

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This review is from: Avoiding the Circus (Audio CD)

This album was named the album of the year by the Fort Worth Weekly in 2003. I'm not sure I would go that far, but it is a terrific album by a great artist who is a relative unknown. "Avoiding the Circus" is a great mix of alt-country and rock, with some punk influences thrown in as well. Herring is a great songwriter and vocalist. FYI, his subsequent albums, "The Other Side of Kindness" (2005) and "Past Life Crashing" (2008), are even better than this one. If you like alt-country, I would highly recommend that you check out Collin Herring. You'll be glad that you did.