Customer Reviews

Pizza Box

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Looks like Danny Barnes found the right partnership in working with the talented John Alagia from Dave Matthew's team in VA. The production touches are just right, the songs are superb and Danny sounds just great. This is probably Barnes' best set of tunes to date. And all of his records are good. If you've come far, don't even think about delaying, buy this right-worthy little bugger now and enjoy it. It's been at the top of my rotation for weeks.

Danny Barnes is essentially country banjo pluker with clever, funny lyrics but his songs are thoroughly modern sounding. All the songs on Pizza Box are well written and produced. The slight electronic/sampler touches are tastefully done.

Recommended.

[DW]

Danny Barnes is wonderful. Get his stuff, then go find John Hartford's 'Mark Twang' and 'Aeroplane'. Summer tunes are covered, now you can move onto less important things. Later

I liked the CD. It was mailed in a timely fashion and I am happy with my Amazon purchase as always.

5 stars for the songs, 1 star for the sonics.

Danny Barnes is a fantastic talent and these are all great songs but, why oh why, has an artist like him fallen into the compression-mania running through pop music these days?

This is the last person I would have expected to put out such a compressed/limited piece of work. As much as I love these songs the loud, boomy mastering, with all of the dynamic range squashed out of it, is tiring to listen to. Maybe he didn't have total control of the mastering decisions but as a performer with a strong traditional music background he should be attuned to more natural sound reproduction. He doesn't need to compete with Metallica after all.

Would buy from vendor again. Disc was in great condition. Best Danny Barnes to date...IMO.