Michael Jerome Browne

Michael Jerome Browne | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 25, 1999)
• Original Release Date: November 25, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B00004Z4JV
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #753,520 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Country Breakdown

2. Wartime Blues

3. You Can't Keep a Good Man Down

4. Blacktop

5. Reuben

6. Sandy River Belles

7. Rising River Blues

8. Manic Depression

9. Gambling Blues

10. Saturday Night Rub

11. Les Plats Tous Mis Sur La Table

12. La Danse Carrée/ La Belle Catherine

13. Boogie Chillen

14. Green River Blues

15. Walk On

16. I Want To Go Home

17. This Must Be The Place

18. Sandy River Belles (Reprise)

19. You're For Me

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful Multi-Instrumentalist Honors Traditions, February 24, 2001

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Scot Guenter (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Michael Jerome Browne (Audio CD)

Michael Jerome Browne has a passion for honoring and keeping alive the blues and folk traditions of the early twentieth century--and he's a master at doing it. Not only is he incredibly skillful on a range of different instruments (fiddle, acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, mouth organ, etc.), which he can vary with great flexibility, but he also pays careful attention to the evolution of different songs and styles in blues, folk, and Cajun traditions, and his repertoire is impressively eclectic. Add his soulful bluesy voice to his musical talent and--Voila! (as they might say in his home of Montreal)--you have a great CD.

I enjoyed the great range of blues songs here, especially the classic set-closer "Walk On." There are some lively Cajun/Creole tunes that set my foot a-stompin', and though my French is atrocious his interpretation certainly sounds authentic. A wonderful unexpected surprise: at the very end of the CD--the very last track--is a delicious, breezy, and witty original love tune reminiscent of a 1930s Cole Porter song for a New York nightclub chanteuse. This demonstrates, again, the great range and talent of this musician. Check him out--you won't be disappointed.

5.0 out of 5 stars Acoustic Excellence, September 18, 2010

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Mark Laing "Just a person" (South Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Michael Jerome Browne (Audio CD)

This is the acoustic album of the acoustic/electric combination album "Double". If you already have that one, don't buy this one. If not, and especially if you don't care for electric blues (which this guy does excellently) then this album is a keeper.