Press & Reviews

Mark Brown delivers his third solo album, his distinctive, gruff vocals are framed on a strong batch of songs by a few of his trusted long-time musical friends, Ken McGloin on guitar, Mark Murphy on bass, Dean Sharp on drums, Dean Jones playing keyboards, banjo and vocals, Dakota Holden pedal steel guitar and Katie Mullins adds vocals, Mark plays guitar and sings. The album is firmly in the absolutely vast Americana genre, populated by songs of misfits and drifters, of dusty roads, Inertia and drugs. I’m reminded of artists like Greg Brown and John Prine; especially for his playful slacker humour, ‘Gasoline Hands’ has a nice calypso thing going on with it, ‘Acetone’ features some tasty organ and exotic rhythms, ‘Happy Hour’ has some great guitar and ‘Davenport’ celebrates the sloth in all of us, this is a fine album, it breezes by in just over half an hour.