Customer Reviews

Things Change

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A beauty. This guy's the real deal,and he's better than 99.9% of the music that's out there. Country rock in every sense of the word. The lyrics are awesome and the music is blazing. Also,anyone who hangs out with Allison Moorer's alright in my books. Grab this before it goes out of print;you know how these small labels can be.

Bob Chaney deserves a lot more exposure than he gets. This music isn't for everyone, I use a lot of discretion in what I let my 9 year old son hear, but Bob is a rare talent and is the kind of artist that Nashville desparately needs to salvage the sinking ship that is today's contemporary country music. Bob's music is quite mature, themes range from successful thievery ("Got Away With It") to a woman's early-mid-life crisis ("Heather All Bummed Out") to substance abuse ("Dying Breed") to suicide ("Weight of the World"). "Where Are You Tonight" is about Bob's loss of his teenage son Zachary; this may not be the best song Bob's ever sung (that is debatable) but it certainly is the best Bob's ever sung a song (and that's saying a lot!). From start to finish, perhaps excluding the uncredited cover of Clarence Carters' "Patches" (where'd Bob come up with this one?!), these are well crafted songs sung by a voice that cannot be easily ignored. And Bob's secret weapon, harmony vocals by Allison Moorer, only makes it more difficult to take the CD out of my player. Buy this CD, in the time you have left play it "every day", "every day", "every day", "every day", ...................... "every day"!

Diversity is what makes this cd so incredible. "Things Change" is a hauntingly beautiful song--one that continues to play in my head.

Bob gets even closer to what makes us tick and what often knocks us down a peg or two, sometime further. This is a sparse CD that's full of penetrating energy and depth. Allison Moorer is all over Bob's CD (again), and to these ears, she sounds better in this context than on her solo CDs (and I love those solo CDs!) Amy Rigby joins the cast on the title track. Tim Carroll is here, too, ripping it up, electrically, moving the beat along. Mastered by Buddy Miller. Lots more to hear, here.

outstanding cd!!a cross between cornell hurd and webb wilder but leaving both in the dust on this one.the kind of music you wished you'd hear on radio,but probably never will.{i'm lucky,living in austin i heard it on our public radio station}.the title track alone is worth the price of the cd,but don't let that detract from the rest of the cd.it's one keeper after another.my only quibble is the bonus track "PATCHES" detracts from the haunting ending.BUY THIS CD!

... but I was expecting a bit more musically. Nothing really wrong with these songs, mind you, but they come off sounding like rough demos that haven't had the chance to be worked on yet to flesh out the potential for musical richness and depth.

And on the track "In The Time I Have Left", the last word of the chorus is repeated OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER again for what seems like 15 minutes (more like 1 minute, really, but it DRAGS). It just seems like poor song structuring to have it run on and on like that.

I really like his voice, though, and he recruited Allison Moorer, possibly THE most under-appreciated singer of modern times, to contribute backing and harmony vocals on most of the tracks. So Bob definitely gets high marks for that.