Brought Low

The Brought Low | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 16, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tee Pee Records
• ASIN: B00005QD76
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #248,541 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. What I Found

2. Goddamn God Bless

3. Motherless Sons

4. Kings and Queens

5. Hot n' Cold

6. City Boy

7. Outer Borough Dust Run

8. Deathbed

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True Power Trio, November 3, 2001

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Jon Vesey "Flat5s" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brought Low (Audio CD)

The Brought Low's self-titled debut album is a hard rocking call to arms for those who are sick of today's style-over-substance music scene. This is the Real McCoy, a real band who care more about what guitars they play than what tattoos they (don't) have, who put songwriting-sense before fashion-sense and would rather put on a show than strike a pose. "The Brought Low" is a throwback to the days when musicians crafted perfect albums and weren't afraid to sing from the heart and play with both soul and skill. They're a power trio in the classic sense of the term and probably the best band in Brooklyn to which the term "southern rock" might apply. The Brought Low was formed in 1999 by three city kids who learned their trades playing and touring with such NYC stalwarts as Murphy's Law, Sweet Diesel, and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black. They've shared stages with such bands as Nebula, Mike Watt, J Mascis and The Rye Coalition and have built up a dedicated local following thanks to their loud, sweaty and heart-felt live show. Trends come and go, springing out of a vacuum, but other music, the better music, is forged in the tension between tradition and the will to progress. It's no coincidence that the touchstones for this band - slide-guitar strains from the delta, notes borne on a hickory wind blowing through the Appalachians, British hard rock of the 70's variety from the Stones on down, Dixie long-hairs like Skynyrd and ZZ Top, Motor City madmen from the MC5 to the Laughing Hyenas - all felt that same tension. All those bands, and this band too, made music that nodded to yesterday but addressed today. Worthwhile music doesn't pop out fully formed; every good note sounded bears its own weight and still hums with the echoes of the best and brashest notes sounded before it. This isn't a museum piece; this is stuff that knows the past, fills the present, and will still sound real tomorrow.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Deal, October 31, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Brought Low (Audio CD)

The Brought Low's self-titled debut album is a hard rocking call to arms for those who are sick of today's style-over-substance music scene. This is the Real McCoy, a real band who care more about what guitars they play than what tattoos they (don't) have, who put songwriting-sense before fashion-sense and would rather put on a show than strike a pose. "The Brought Low" is a throwback to the days when musicians crafted perfect albums and weren't afraid to sing from the heart and play with both soul and skill. They're a power trio in the classic sense of the term and probably the best band in Brooklyn to which the term "southern rock" might apply. The Brought Low was formed in 1999 by three city kids who learned their trades playing and touring with such NYC stalwarts as Murphy's Law, Sweet Diesel, and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black. They've shared stages with such bands as Nebula, Mike Watt, J Mascis and The Rye Coalition and have built up a dedicated local following thanks to their loud, sweaty and heart-felt live show. Trends come and go, springing out of a vacuum, but other music, the better music, is forged in the tension between tradition and the will to progress. It's no coincidence that the touchstones for this band - slide-guitar strains from the delta, notes borne on a hickory wind blowing through the Appalachians, British hard rock of the 70's variety from the Stones on down, Dixie long-hairs like Skynyrd and ZZ Top, Motor City madmen from the MC5 to the Laughing Hyenas - all felt that same tension. All those bands, and this band too, made music that nodded to yesterday but addressed today. Worthwhile music doesn't pop out fully formed; every good note sounded bears its own weight and still hums with the echoes of the best and brashest notes sounded before it. This isn't a museum piece; this is stuff that knows the past, fills the present, and will still sound real tomorrow.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars dirty fat hooks, January 28, 2011

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fatjimmy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brought Low (Audio CD)

This is the one album I have heard in the past few years that I just cant stop playing. My partner is sick to death of it, giving it even more kudos in my book. I wanna join a band..
Tight, aggressive big bottom end grunt, dirty fat hooks courtesy of strong blues lineage, non-fiction vocals and big drums - great stuff. Gritty hard rock for those who have become punch-drunk and disengaged from the idea that music like this can still exist in the hard rock genre.