Your Country

Graham Parker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 9, 2004)
• Original Release Date: March 9, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bloodshot Records
• ASIN: B0001CCWX0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,771 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comfortably Americana, May 1, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Your Country (Audio CD)

I must confess that I was not much of a Graham Parker fan until I purchased a copy of A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd and heard his incredibly stark and haunting version of Comfortably Numb. At that point, I had to learn more. The earlier stuff rocks -- this guy dances circles around Elvis Costello. But Your Country provided an even more profound surprise. Brit Pub Rocker Graham Parker has mastered . . . AMERICANA? It's true and Lucinda Williams is there to provide her stamp of approval on Cruel Lips. Your Country features a first rate, crack band and warm, inviting production values from John Would and Stanely Recordings (Check out Would's band Yortoise "I Love You to Death" if you get a chance). In addition to brilliant songwriting, its obvious that Graham can more than carry off all musicianship required by Your Country. But add in a superior player like Tom Freund and you get something pretty close to an all time classic. All I can say is purchase and enjoy -- I did!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best just keeps getting better, March 10, 2004

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Tankery "Tankery" (New Orleans) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Country (Audio CD)

Graham put out his best album ever last time with Deepcut to Nowhere. Great grooves, great hooks, superb lyrics. This one doesn't miss a beat. Ironically, Lucinda Williams sings on Cruel Lips-Ironic in the sense that all great musicians from her to Springsteen to Dylan think Graham is a genius songwriter.
There's something to a country tinge to many of the songs-especially the first three, but many of the songs groove to that trademark, hook-laden, rock and roll Graham has honed and perfected over the years. Fair Ground is one of the greatest songs he has ever written and pretty much puts into one song where the great Mr. Parker is at this point in his career. A great point, by the way.
To get excited by a release from an artist who has delivered so much in almost the last 30 years is one thing, but to have an artist doing his best stuff after 30 years is something rivaling the devine.
If you haven't yet discovered the greatness in Graham Parker, first, shame on you, second, start with Deepcut to Nowhere and then snatch up Your Country.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a must own for even a casual parker fan, April 2, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Your Country (Audio CD)

parker has been hit or miss his whole career, but when he hits, as in the case of "squeezing out sparks", "mona lisa's sister" and "struck by lightning", he's as good as anyone out there. this is his best since "struck by lightning" for sure (although "burning questions" is pretty great too). not a weak track to be found here, and several of them, most notably "the rest is history", "nation of shopkeepers", and "fairground", rate among parker's best ever. if you're even enough of a fan to read this review, you need to own this.