Brooklyn Bridge

Casey Neill Trio | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 8, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: In Music We Trust
• ASIN: B000PLCMQO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,472 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cigarettes & Stars, July 4, 2008

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Lee Armstrong (Winterville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brooklyn Bridge (Audio CD)

Casey Neill's newest CD continues his fine record of excellent recordings. His music reflects diverse sources like folk, country and rock. The title track opens the set. It is a midtempo tune that wistfully looks at the past and sounds like it could be a companion piece to The Band, "On that dirty river, we will be delivered across the Brooklyn Bridge." "The Holy Land" feels like a classic beer house brogue with H. Araki's whistle and Neill's voice in a raunchy growl, "The night light shines on the Water Street bricks; We danced hand in hand on the East River Strand, and the whiskey flowed like the Tigris through the Holy Land." "Once Upon A When" is another strong track with a pretty melody that unmasks artifice, "Now every time you're at my door, you're more and more a caricature of all the better people you might have been." "Beautiful Night" is a powerful piece of songwriting with an original lyric, gorgeous melody and Casey's passionate vocals, "Charcoal grey skies, rainy streets, dirty town, crying all the time, the tears of heaven falling down, I love the twilight between the worlds as evening falls, it draws us in, the darkness whispers to us all. ... The sound of music from the crowded bars, alcohol and wind, cigarettes and stars." "Throw Me to the Dogs" is an epic rock ballad with Neill's vocals howling, "It's an unspoken hunger that brought me here, out where the coyotes crawl." "Philadelphia Girl" has Celtic flavors, a song about a boy happy and in love. Neill's songwriting matches his excellent debut Casey Neill and 2005's Memory Against Forgetting. This set is a terrific explosion. Enjoy!

5.0 out of 5 stars King Neptune, June 30, 2010

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Jean K. Doyle "rosepug" (Santa Cruz, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brooklyn Bridge (Audio CD)

Not much to add to Lee Armstrong's review, except: this album contains the finest tribute song to Johnny Cunningham ever written, made even more heart-piercing by Phil Cunningham's accompanying keyboards and accordion. I know of two other musical memorials to Johnny: his brother Phil's (a man who has written some of the most exquisitely beautiful tunes known to mankind), and Dougie MacLean's wonderful 'Song for Johnny'. King Neptune is the best of them.