Seven And Six

Bellwether | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 10, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cobraside
• ASIN: B000MQ55Q6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #618,027 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Half Life

2. Miss You Twice

3. Willing to Trade

4. St. Helena

5. This Time

6. Catalina

7. I Thought That You Were Dead

8. Lately

9. Favorite Worry

10. Via Washington

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Album, October 7, 2005

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K. Arthur (denver, co) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seven & Six (Audio CD)

For those of you who are familiar with the band...it's in the spirit of "Home Late", an incredible acoustic album, and 7&6 may indeed surpass it. For those of you are not familiar with the band, but like great acoustic music that can be listened to from front to end, you will enjoy it. In the spirit of Ryan Adams' "Heartbreaker" acoustic stuff, and throw in some Jeff Tweedy acoustic work, and you'll have a good idea of what it is. Great songwriting, great lyrics, and great vocals. Listen to some of the songs if you can on amazon or Itunes. I haven't taken the CD outta my car in over a week, and play a few over and over...I hope the rumors aren't true that they broke up.

5.0 out of 5 stars Well There is No Seven or Six Stars...so 5 Will Do, February 17, 2011

By 

M. Swinney "Marc My Words" (Flower Mound, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seven And Six (Audio CD)

Any time I'm doing music sharing or burning an alt country CD for friends, Bellwether's "7&6" songs will be on there. This band is originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota where the winters are cold and the music is bold. I believe they are now disbanded as of 2006 or so but man, their music is something to behold. I discovered them through some chance downloading but the songs I have off of 7&6 are all solid with track 1, Half Life, track 2 Miss You Twice, and especially track 6, Catalina reaching sublime ear candy country folk chill status.

These guys know how to write songs and know how to execute on the delivery. Think Wilco, Ryan Adams acoustic, maybe a little Gin Blossoms and Toad the Wet Sprocket thrown in there for good measure. The lyrics from Jimmy Peterson's Half Life stick in troubled times, "A Half life and anything better is alright my dear / And I know your only half pretending in love I fear / Let's mix words with water, so they don't sound so hard / and let's paint some fifty million colors and now it's not so dark / And I've got 5 minutes to convince you over the din of drums five hundred minutes ain't long." Great vocal effects in this song with a reverb delay echo that comes across haunting and pure Americana. Anyone who's struggled in a relationship that seems challenged will relate.

Catalina starts out with a faint piano and toss in some french horns maybe, very subtle. And a faint spoken vocal track, "Sin after sin, drinking, carousing, I was coming to a certain end. I was at the mercy of the devil," to lead us into the cool laid back guitar strum and great slightly gravelly vocals. Musical bliss. Catalina is an island off the coast of California down LA way where a more fitting juxtapose from the glamour and glitz onshore can be found...nature and ocean and peace. The Minnesota boys, Bellwether are talking about a woman though and thank goodness they are because her visit to cold Minnesota spurned this song...a gem. "I'll be going back the way I came / It'll probably take an hour with the darkness and the rain
By then you'll be above the Great Divide / You can't really see it, but it's somewhere in the night." Lyrically, that's Springsteen-esque.

This band went so under the radar that I think it will be fun for you to claim them as your own discovery and share it with all your friends. They will look at you differently and nod...there's a person with some sublime tastes in all things auditory. That man knows his music. Bellwether is a music group. Bellwether is the sheep that wears a bell that leads the herd. A leader. A movement. Be the Bellwether and listen to 7&6's. You won't be sorry you did. --mmw