Maplewood

Maplewood | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 7, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tee Pee Records
• ASIN: B0002OOUR8
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #241,063 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Are you a child of the 70s?, March 7, 2005

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Brooklyn Cowboy (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maplewood (Audio CD)

Because this record sounds like everything you heard, late at night from the back seat during family road trips. Your parents were driving up front, maybe your dad had the window cracked and smoke was slipping into the night from his cigarette. This is before the divorce, before you had time to get bitter, when your little sister was sleeping next to you and Mom and Dad were humming along to America or Bread and everythig seemed okay in the world.

Except it's better than that. Because this isn't retro-nostalgia or borrowed Gram Parsons riffs. All those late nights and empty highways are in there, but this record is fresh, without a whiff of irony or a winking nostalgia.

Instead it's a summer afternoon, no place to be, the fridge full of cold beer, the coals in the grill almost ready, your buddies shooting the bull and a girl you're crazy about by your side.

It's harmony and melody and old fashioned song craft. It's the pure joy of 12 string guitars and sweet jams. It's summer and wine and first kisses and you should own it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars in need of some companions?, December 7, 2004

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Reginald Vorhees III "Archduke" (Mansfield, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maplewood (Audio CD)

Well, if you are, then you've found the right album. They even say so w/ their song "Be My Friend." An album with inspired melodies from the likes of poco, america, the byrds, flying burrito brothers, the list goes on; you'll be humming the melodies at work (if you have a job that is), and smiling every time you listen. I duly and truly recommend this for anyone out there who's a fan of canyon-rock, alt-country, or anyone who yearns for the music of the past.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just go buy this record., October 14, 2004

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MS "MS" (somewhere in texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maplewood (Audio CD)

I have never written a review, but this record is so good that I felt compelled to do so. I based my purchase on an ad that described the music as "something you would listen to as you drive up Pacific Coast Hwy", and the cover art. I was immediately hooked by the first song and the next three were classics as well. The entire album is a cohesive, well crafted, piece of listenable pop with flavors of Southern Calfornia, 70's America (the band), and early Byrds. You don't often hear this quality of songcrafting these days. When this band takes off, remember you heard it here first.