Dan Fogelberg - High Country Snows
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Artist: Dan FogelbergEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sony
Product features:
- 1985 CBS INC
- Mountain Pass
- Sutter's Mill
- Wolf Creek [Instrumental]
- High Country Snows
- The Outlaw
- Shallow Rivers
- Go Down Easy
- Wandering Shepherd
- Think of What You've Done
- The Higher You Climb
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Free Music Review: The Real Thing
Hit: 5 Stars
When this album first came out in the mid 80's, I listened to it apprehensively. I mean, Dan Folgelberg doing traditional-oriented country music? I had my doubts. But, I was lucky enough to work at a record store and was able to get a promo copy. Lord knows I would never have spent my hard earned cash on a Dan Fogelberg album. I took my country music seriously (still do). But one listen had me sold. From the opening notes of 'Down the Road' til the closing fade of 'The Higher You Climb,' I was mesmerized. Country Music in the mid 80's was at a crossroads, with the "young country" drivel beginning to show and traditional hillbilly music starting to fade. So it was quite nice to hear an album done in the southern style with intelligent lyrics and, most importantly, SOUL! Not the R&B kind of soul that implies a style of music, but the soul that you hear when the artist sings and plays with conviction - from the heart.
I must admit, I never thought of Dan Fogelberg in that sense. I've always considered him to be a nice kind of singer songwriter mellow music man. But on 'High Country Snows,' this boy lets loose with all the vigor of any true country music singer. Top notch musicianship from top notch bluegrass and folk musicians accent Fogelberg's vocals and lyrics. My particular favorite is 'Sutter's Mill,' probably because I'm such a history buff, and this song tells the story (just like the old traditional songs used to) of old John Sutter, the man generally accepted as discovering gold in California in the 1840's and beginning (unintentionally) the infamous gold rush. Another wonderful story song is 'Go Down Easy,' creating perfect images in the listener's mind of what is happening in each verse of the tune.
Actually, there is not a bad cut on the album, and I'm sure Sony could put a couple of tunes on a re-release of this disc of music originally recorded for this album but, for some reason, never included on the original.
The sound quality is every bit as great as the individual tunes, by the way. The strings on the acoustic instruments ring true and clear as if they were performing in your living room.
A worthwhile collection to own, and would fit in easily with the Patty Loveless 'Mountain Soul' disc, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's 'Will The Circle Be Unbroken' set, Emmylou Harris' 'Roses In the Snow, 'O Brother Where Art Thou,' and many other traditional CD's. Click around www.Amazon.com and take up their offer to allow you to listen to snippets of songs. Experiment!
By the way, when I call something "hillbilly music," I do not intend that as a durogatory slur against southerners. I mean it as about the highest compliment as I can give when it comes to country music. You will NEVER hear me call this current crop of country ... like Faith Hill, Garth Brooks, and Shania Twain (just to name a few), hillbilly music. That would be a sin in my eyes.
You done good, Dan!
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