Customer Reviews

Waking Hour

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This is a GREAT album. The songs feel so right from the first hearing and soon it feels like you've known them all your life--they are so honest and true. The lyrics are both simple and profound and Francey singing is intense and passionate. Buy this, you won't regret it.

David Francey was coming to a nearby venue with James Keelaghan, and I was lucky to get a listen to this CD before its release.

There is a good feeling you get when you can sit back and have a nice, open conversation with a friend. You also feel that way when you listen to this CD, because that is how Francey sings.

With an everyman voice, a little bit of everywhere accent, and a delivery that is right from the heart, his songs are just simple life stories, smoke rings that circle around before drifting away. From the first line, you can feel the real life in these songs. And in the singer's soul.

On the stage, that is exactly the person who showed up to perform. Francey described himself as "instrumentally challenged." He just sang! But the songs and the stories came at you without disguise. He is no young turk, and his songs plainly show a maturity that can be hard to find.

You will really enjoy this CD.

David Francey is a great songwriter and a great singer, but dependent on others to provide the instrumental context for his poetry. In this case the sublime trio of Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch and Fats Kaplin are the perfect solution to the problem. Kane Welch Kaplin (see the reviews of their recordings, under various versions of this name) are very fine players, and Kane and Welch are particularly accomplished songwriters -- they know just what to do to set the stage for another member of the guild.

This is a very fine album, with excellent playing, excellent songs and excellent singing. Easily worth the investment.

David Francey has produced some fine music over the past decade. This effort is thoroughly enjoyable and addresses some difficult topics. My only reservation was the sense I got that being in Nashville changed his sound so that it is a little less natural and his own and sounds a little more Nashville, hence, produced. Francey doesn't need production or polishing. Well, that's the view from here!

I bought this CD because I LOVED "tonight in my dreams"
against the advice of a friend of mine I bought the CD.
Didn't like ANY of the other tunes.