Will Kimbrough
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Will Kimbrough
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Track Listings

1	I Lie
2	Life
3	Grown Up Now
4	Pride
5	Less Polite
6	Americanitis
7	Warring Ways
8	Another Train
9	Act Like Nothing's Wrong
10	Everyone's In Love
11	Wind Blowing Change
12	Perfect Desert Blue
13	River Out Of Eden
14	Let Me Say Yes
15	Rag
16	Enemy
17	Brand New Song

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The title of Will Kimbrough's latest release refers to a disease of power, arrogance, and hypocrisy--but music that has this much conviction and soul-searching might well provide an antidote. The former frontman for Will and the Bushmen and sideman for Todd Snider and Rodney Crowell (among others), guitarist Kimbrough here reinforces his reputation as a songwriter of great range and social conscience, whether he's addressing foreign policy ("I Lie," "Perfect Desert Blue"), white-collar crime ("Act Like Nothing's Wrong"), or the bittersweet ironies of maturity ("Grown Up Now"). The spoken-word "Pride" evokes comparisons with T Bone Burnett, while the propulsive "Less Polite" is as pointed as Rodney Crowell's recent material. The hard-driving "Another Train" and double-time raver "Let Me Say Yes" carry an electric charge amid the rootsy, acoustic arrangements that dominate, with Kimbrough channeling the spirit of Woody Guthrie on the closing "Brand New Song." --Don McLeese

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.02 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Thirty Tigers
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 29, 2007
Label ‏ : ‎ Thirty Tigers
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000G7PNX6
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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MoMusicLessCrap

American Songwriters Refuse to Die !

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2008

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IN a vein long unmined, Will Kimbrough brings back topical music, with a vengeance. "I lie" sums up the mores of the powerful and rich in America
while "Act like Nothing's Wrong" gives you the instruction to survive it. His writing skills, to the point AND musical bring back a too-long lost genre in the U.S. - songs with a message besides sappy-love-drips.
Try him on for size, no lies involved, and with very little exageration brings the mirror up to our faces and dares us not to see ourselves - "Warring Ways" tells it like it is. The song craftsmanship is first rate and if you don't mind music making you think, this is a Great American Album/CD. 'nuff said. Kc

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2016

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Great artist, enjoy the overall package, lyrics and music are tops....cant go wrong with this buy.

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hyperbolium

Meditation on the 21st century American character

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2006

Though he's fronted critics-darling bands like Will & The Bushmen and The Bis-Quits, Kimbrough's been most widely seem and heard as a sideman for Steve Forbert, Jimmy Buffet, Kim Richey, and Rodney Crowell. His recent tours with Crowell have heavily influenced both the songwriting and singing on this second solo album. The joyful observations of "Life" and mid-life wake-up of "Grown Up Now" are of a piece with Crowell's recent self explorations, and the bluntness of "Less Polite" has a similar lyric tone to Crowell's work on "The Outsider."

Kimbrough's latest songs provide a meditation on the meaning of being an American in the twenty-first century. He explores the ironies and contradictions that make up the American character, including the avarice of white collar crime ("I Lie" "Act Like Nothing's Wrong") and the duality of America's thirst for both God and guns ("Pride," delivered as a T Bone Burnett styled spoken word, and the hymnal "Warring Ways"). The album's second half includes a variety of blues, including the electric "Another Train" the acoustic gospel-tinged "Wind Blowing Change," the soulful pop "Another Train," and the funereal "Perfect Desert Blue."

The album closes with "Brand New Song," marrying the folk construction of Woody Guthrie with the spiritual depth of Johnny Cash. It's an unusually positive and hopeful close to an album full of biting social study and interpersonal observation. [©2006 hyperbolium dot com]

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L. D. Knight

The American Condition

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2007

The indie/alt/country/folk section of my CD collection includes musicians like Steve Earle, Dan Bern, Mary Gauthier, and John Prine (among many others), and of course, Todd Snider. I've been following Todd for years, but somehow I overlooked Will Kimbrough's music until this CD, Americanitis. Will plays in Todd's band (he's one of the Nervous Wrecks, I believe), so I was expecting Will's music to sound a lot like Todd's... and it's certainly influenced by him, but Will has his own thing going on.

Every track has a different feel, from bar room songs to war protests to love ballads (maybe the love part is a stretch of my imagination, but I made it fit), each grounded in solid songwriting. His lyrics are funny, surprising, depressing, and painfully honest. Everyone in my family likes Americanitis (even if it has pissed off my budding Republican of a son a few times), and I've caught them all trying to remember verses after only playing the CD a handful of times.

What connects the songs on this CD is the ongoing thread of the title, the affliction of being American. Life is complicated, and Will has obviously put in a lot of time contemplating our modern condition. It's music like this that makes me appreciate what vestiges of freedom we still have as Americans, even as I cringe at the news from at home and abroad of the increasing selfishness, greed, and pride that have become synonymous with being from the USA.

Will's CD is Americana music at it's best: it sounds good and feels almost familiar, and it says a lot of things we haven't been listening to--but need to be hearing--about being American.

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Jake Larson

A great mix

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2006

This album is a great mix of musical styles and really showcases Will's talents. It has rockers, ballads, and a nice spoken word number in Pride. There are some great gems here, my favorites are Life, Grown Up Now, Less Polite, Everyone's In Love, and Enemy. With 17 tracks on the album, there is a lot of favorites there. Will has notes on each song at his website which you should check out. I have not been able to pop this in the player and only listen to it once, everytime it seems to repeat at least halfway before it gets changed. This CD is a must have for any music fan.

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I. Thomas

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2014

Surprisingly good album. I'll be looking for Will the next time he comes through town!

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2006

In this day of homogenized "more of the same", Will K. has created a social-political statement with an impressive mix of pop and Americana.

Simply put, this is a great record.

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Diane M. Wormington

americantis

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2007

Cleaver lyrics on a myrid of subjects in the fine tradition of singer,songwriter.The sprinkling in of harmonica always works for me being a player myself.I particularly enjoyed Grown up now and Less polite.

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Mr. S. Crook

A sharper more political Kimbrough

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2007

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Previous Kimbrough albums have been a mix of country, rock, pop and blues and while some songs have made political points, most have been about life, love and the universe in general.

This album is different, the delivery is the same, with that wonderful voice that at times sounds like Lennon and other times like Finn, excellent musicianship and lyrics that do just what they're intended to do. On this outing the songs are sharper, darker and overtly political. I think Kimbrough has had enough of Bush and feels the American dream is being stolen by the business and political elite and that it was about time he got up and said something about it.

Don't be put off by the political/protest tone, there's good stuff here (particularly if you agree with his pov), and Kimbrough has had the good sense to make his point without 'shouting'. Even so, he leaves you in no doubt about where he stands.

He's also excellent live, solo or with a band. If you get a chance to see him, don't pass it up.

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Catero

Americana-Pop-Lala

Reviewed in Germany on January 18, 2014

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Pop-Musik, ganz einfach Pop-Musik mit dem Americana-Staubsauger - und das vom Meister der krachenden Roots-Rock- und der passgenauen Country-Rock-Gitarre, wie er sie ansonsten auf z.B. Aufnahmen von Todd Snider oder Rodney Crowell beweist. Für den zweiten, den Fremdspielaspekt, liebe ich ihn bislang sehr, nur wenige produzieren so wundervolle, stilsichere Fremdaufnahmen exakt auf den Punkt wie er, doch für ersteres, den Musiker eigener Rechte...nun ja, zu bunt, einfach zu bunt - für mich, daher auch bislang nur Rauswürfe nach Wiederholungsanschaffungen.
Auf Amercanitis - die CD heißt nicht umsonst so - absorbiert er einfach alles, saugt alles auf, was ihm wohl jemals in seinem Leben zu Ohren kam, verarbeitet es zu kongenialen Pop-Roots-Rock- und -Country-Aufnahmen, vom akustischen Fiddle-Swing, über Jump'n'Jive, rockige Gitarrenkracher und Folk-Blues bis zum Kinder-Glockenspiel-Dobro-Song und Mendocino mäßigem Augie Meyers-Vox-Orgel-Rock, alles kenntnisreich und sehr kompetent, dabei extrem klangsicher auf den Punkt gespielt, auf den es ankommt. Und dabei hat er gar keine Probleme dabei soweit zu gehen, dass er sich einen zweiten Gitarrenkracher an Bord holt - Pat Buchanan.

Wer nun eine, wie auch immer geartete, Erwartungshaltung entwickelt hat - er soll sie saußen lassen, nichts davon wird zutreffen, dafür bekommt er aber alles, denn nicht weniger bietet der Mann.

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Jeff Newall

Americanitis

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 7, 2013

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I was disappointed with this album. Maybe Will was trying something different but it is so far removed from all his other albums. Will is a terrific guitarist, he has a number of really good albums to his own name as well as featuring extensively on the albums of others. Americanitis is not representative of his other work and is only for the truly committed fan.

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