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Creature

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At 14 tracks and a little over 50 minutes, Andrew Eversole's "Creature" really gives you your money's worth. Overall, the engineering is a very good quality--only one notable song (Track 11) gave me problems with music overmodulating vocals.

For the most part, the sound is traditional bluegrass particularly 10 "Old Joe Clark" and 14 "Katy Hill", but there's a progressive or experimental element in some of the selections that may not appeal to some old school bluegrass fans.

5. "Red Blues" has a lovely Latino flair with a red-hot whining fiddle backing.

11. "Amerika The Beautiful" isn't quite what I expected with its eerie spoken word addition, but I like it. My only wish was that the spoken word was a bit louder, because I had to crank up the volume to hear them. Sarah Strable follows with the correct vocals for the song, but the instrumentation gives us an idea of what the shape our country is in.

13. "The History of Man" is a funky, jazz number with a whole lot of varying sound effects from African to outerspace.

If you are a traditional bluegrass fan, listen to the cuts and pick the ones that you're going to like. For those of us who like different, I suspect like me you are going to like the whole CD.

Rebecca Kyle, July 2008