Cowboy Mouth - Easy

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Free Music Review: 'Easy' is easily the best Cowboy Mouth album since 1994
Hit: 5 Stars

Every song on `Easy' is "good" at minimum with most of the tracks falling somewhere between "very good" to "great". "Easy", "Everything You Do", "Marianne" and "Run to Me" are great, radio-friendly tracks from Fred LeBlanc (lead singer, drummer) that should appeal to those unfamiliar with the band. The most expansive track is "Always Leaving", a somewhat uncharacteristic style for the band but one of the top tracks on the album nonetheless. "Always Leaving" is a cover of the first track of singer/songwriter Brian Seymour's album, "When I Was Blonde" (the CM version is better). The most historically-notable track is "China", a remake of the 1983 hit from the "Red Rockers". The former lead singer of "Red Rockers" is John Thomas Griffith, now one of the four core members of Cowboy Mouth. The newest "catchy" tune from CM is "Everybody Loves Jill", a song where the crowd throws red plastic spoons at the band when the band sings the words (what else?) "red spoon". Finally, we get yet another remake of "How Do You Tell Someone" - arguably the band's most "catchy" song but a song that never seems to quite make its big breakthrough to radio playlists.

Cowboy Mouth's previous best album was 1994's "It Means Escape" (re-released on CD in 2000). 'Escape' is still the better album to convey the "live" sound of the band but 'Easy' is the first album with a radio-friendly sound from start-to-finish that reaches out to those not fortunate enough to see the band live. Post-`Escape' albums include `Are You With Me' and `Word of Mouth' which are both good and sound, predictably enough, like a mixture of `Easy' and `Escape'.

I have a long-standing opinion that Cowboy Mouth can not be fully appreciated until the band has been experienced in a live setting - Fred LeBlanc's energy is infectious (indeed - Fred simply does not allow the crowd to be passive and makes a point of getting everyone into the spirit of the performance). If you can't see the band live, I believe "Easy" is the -best- introduction a new listener can have and the album is possibly the best effort yet from this experienced, hard-working group.

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