Springtime

Freakwater | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 20, 1998)
• Original Release Date: January 20, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Thrill Jockey
• ASIN: B000004B3I
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #225,584 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars REAL music for all the Lilith children, December 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Springtime (Audio CD)

In an age where Jewel and Sarah McLachlan are hailed as Lilith Queens and phonies like Garth Brooks have ruined country music, it's no surprise that Freakwater are virtually unknown. The songs which comprise SPRINGTIME sound like a letter to Nashville saying, "This is how it ought to be done." Real, raw, melodic, heartfelt. Even if you don't like "country music" (and I don't), please give this album a chance.

Memo to Sarah McL: PLEASE invite Freakwater to next year's Lilith.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Faulkner's Favorite Country Band, July 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Springtime (Audio CD)

If William Faulkner had a favorite country band (and it wasn't the Carter Family), it might well be Freakwater. They conjure up a universe of their own, where Mohammed Ali's fight for respect ("Louisville Lip") is no less an appropriate subject for minor key mountain laments than drunkeness, lonliness, and poverty. The vocal harmonies have just the right rawness to them, a keening, slightly warbling sound that pierces your brain as well as your heart, and the simple instrumentation is expert. Be prepared for friends and family to think you're nuts if they hear it come out of your speakers, but buy it and play it on your headphones if you have to. There is something unique, real and American about this music.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best country song ever written about Mohammed Ali!!!, February 6, 2006

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August Lamczyk "The pride and joy of Southern... (Springfield, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Springtime (Audio CD)

The above title of this review is 100% correct. Now if you are inclined to like country music that is lyrically dumbed down and sonically a bastardized half breed between 1980s southern rock and teen pop for adults well this may be to distinct for you. On this Freakwater alblum the song writing becomes more precise, the instrumentation though sparse is more refined, and the sound of the intertwined vocals morphs into something beautiful and almost unworldly. The lyrics make you ponder ideas that you've thought about but seldom hear in a song (think Graham Parker, Vic Chestnut, and Patti Smith). This alblum will give you faith in country music again.