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Lester Norton
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  • Audio CD (March 15, 2006)
  • Original Release Date: March 15, 2006
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Lester Norton
  • ASIN: B000FCLWM8
  • In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,199,709 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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About the Artist

Lester Norton was born in the frigid wilderness of Maine. Bangor to be exact. It's smack in the middle of the state, which means it's in the middle of nowhere (as opposed to the coast of nowhere or the southeastern corner of nowhere.) While you may have heard it mispronounced by the late, great Roger Miller in his song "King of the Road", it's BangOR, not BangER. (People from Bangor are still pretty sore about that, let me tell you.) When you grow up with that kind of chip on your shoulder, you have to find a creative outlet for it. Otherwise, you'll wind up knocking over a liquor store for quarters to feed your Asteroids obsession or explosively decompressing in the middle of a meeting with clients, and there goes 20 years of hard work as a research assistant for the owner of the largest lobster pound in New England. So, he took up music and formed a band. Curse you, Roger Miller. Now, you might think that someone who shared a home town with Stephen King for so many years might be tempted to write songs about vampires and undead cats. But he'd like to leave that sort of thing to Jewel. His songs are more akin to those paintings that you see where the artist picks up a pail of whatever's handy and throws it at the wall. There are some pretty nifty patterns that show up when you chuck a bucket and see what sticks. Lester's bucket chucking is set to music is all. Lester currently reside with his wife, two kids and four cats in the middle of Florida, which is almost as nowhere as Maine, just a hell of a lot warmer.


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"Like Sailors Do" is bluesrockcountryfolk. It contains some nifty hooks and some interesting lyrics that will be fun for the whole family. You'll hear a little Neil Young, some Warren Zevon, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, a little folk, a little country, a little blues, and a little rock 'n' roll. But mostly it's Lester Norton and his unique blend of all of the above.

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5.0 out of 5 stars All the Cool Kids, July 12, 2006
By Deborah Vilmur (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews
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All the cool kids, grew up on the music their parents loved, for better or worse. For me that was James Taylor, Paul Simon and Judy Collins. For my own children, its a whole lot of Tori Amos, John Lee Hooker and a healthy serving of Lester Norton. I swear by this CD and its ability to produce the very best kind of full-on velvety chills. Buy it. Now. All the cool kids already ripped it to their IPods last week.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A great addition to any album list, July 25, 2006
By Brad at Almost Lucid (Kansas City, MO) - See all my reviews
I'm really enjoying this first album from Norton. It's a great anytime, anyplace CD. My spectrum stays pretty close to Staind, Tool, Evanescence and the like, but I really appreciate and enjoy eccentric folks in the same vein as Beck, Johnny Cash, and Bob Dylan. That's why this is a great album, because Norton works his unique voice and style into each genre and it fits perfectly there. Nice work, sir.

Another nice feature is having something I can pop into the home CD player and the whole family can enjoy.

Favorite tracks so far are the more rock-laden, "January Comes Down Hard", and "Ode to a Leader".
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gets better and better, June 7, 2006
I've been a fan of Lester's work since the (in?)famous Teddy Bear Picnic Concert. Lester's a great artist and continues to grow with his latest work. I listen to it over and over at work and it always puts me in a better mood.

Buy this CD immediately.

No...sooner than that.
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