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4.0 out of 5 stars
Orbison Meets The Mavericks, August 12, 2005
This review is from: Here Come Those Dreams Again (Audio CD)
If you like a retro rock and roll sound done in a contemporary style, you will love this album. The extraordinary voice of lead singer David Fisher soars on tunes that remind me of Roy Orbison, Chris Isaak and The Mavericks with a little Dwight Yoakum mixed in. This California group's music is hard to categorize, retro 60's rock, rockabilly with a hint of country. The excellent band accompanies Fisher flawlessly and the sound is fresh and exciting.
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A sense of intrique with enchanting songs and resplendent stories of evasive love, September 16, 2005
This review is from: Here Come Those Dreams Again (Audio CD)
Playing Time - 45:26 -- Big Blue Hearts is a Los Angeles-based band whose blend of smooth country-pop gives us a popular danceband style of music. Tinges of rockabilly creep in, and it wouldn't hurt for them to get a little more raucous and take a few more risks which I can tell they're fully capable of. Strong vocal and instrumental work characterize this band comprised of David Fisher, Scott Minchk, J.B. Burton, and Greg Sobol. Big Blue Hearts' first album was released in June, 1997 on Geffen Records, and their sophomore effort in "Here Come Those Dreams Again" is long overdue. The production quality of this project is first-rate, and their dreamy and slightly mysterious music incorporates a fair amount of reverb and twangy guitar. Even their songs (such as "Dreamin' of a Woman" or "Here Come Those Dreams Again") have plenty of allegorical references to those mental images and emotions often encountered in various stages of consciousness. "Lovin' You" is the cut being heavily promoted to radio, and a June/July Texas radio tour will kick off the release of this project.
David Fisher's prolific songwriting (or co-writing) is showcased on all ten songs, and his singing is full of heart, body and soul. With a few more honest tearjerkers and ballads, I could see this band really creating a sizeable and fanatical international following. They have fascinating appeal potential that's immediately likeable and very enticing. Big Blue Hearts have created a sense of intrique with enchanting songs and resplendent stories of evasive love. (Joe Ross, Roseburg, OR.)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great album, June 29, 2006
This review is from: Here Come Those Dreams Again (Audio CD)
I love this album. It's perfect mood music. Don't pigeon hole this band as a Chris Isaak knockoff. They're a little more country, and it's easy to tell they've been together for close to a decade. Very cohesive album. They know who they are. I can't pick a favorite song, b/c I love them all, but the first track is the one I heard on a GAC show called "The Edge of Country."
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