Name: Milk of the Moon
Brand: RED HOUSE
SKU: 180544
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Milk of the Moon

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Album: Milk of the Moon
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Lull It By	More Info...	0:04
2)	A Little Excited	More Info...	0:03
3)	Let Me Be Your Gigalo	More Info...	0:04
4)	Smell Of Coffee	More Info...	0:04
5)	Milk of the Moon	More Info...	0:05
6)	Mud	More Info...	0:04
7)	Ashamed Of Our Love	More Info...	0:03
8)	Steady Love	More Info...	0:04
9)	The Moon Is Nearly Full	More Info...	0:05
10)	Telling Stories	More Info...	0:04
11)	Never So Far	More Info...	0:05
12)	Oh You	More Info...	0:04

Album: Milk of the Moon
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Lull It By	More Info...	0:04
2)	A Little Excited	More Info...	0:03
3)	Let Me Be Your Gigalo	More Info...	0:04
4)	Smell Of Coffee	More Info...	0:04
5)	Milk of the Moon	More Info...	0:05
6)	Mud	More Info...	0:04
7)	Ashamed Of Our Love	More Info...	0:03
8)	Steady Love	More Info...	0:04
9)	The Moon Is Nearly Full	More Info...	0:05
10)	Telling Stories	More Info...	0:04
11)	Never So Far	More Info...	0:05
12)	Oh You	More Info...	0:04

Performer Notes

Personnel: Greg Brown (vocals, acoustic & baritone guitar); Pete Heitzman (electric, slide & baritone guitar); Karen Savoca (Clavinet, percussion, background vocals); Tom "T-Bone" Wolk (accordion, organ, upright & electric bass); Jimmy Johns (drums).
Producers: Greg Brown, Pete Heitzman, Karen Savoca.
Recorded at Alcove Sound, Oneida, New York.
Personnel: Greg Brown (vocals, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar); Pete Heitzman (electric guitar, slide guitar, baritone guitar); T-Bone Wolk (accordion, organ, upright bass, electric bass); Karen Savoca (Clavinet, percussion, background vocals); Jimmy Johns (drums).
Audio Mixer: Pete Heitzman.
Recording information: Alcove Sound, Oneida, NY; Petting Zoo Studio, Iowa City, IA.
Photographer: Pieta Brown.
Singer-songwriter Greg Brown has made a cottage industry for himself in the folk world by doing it his way. His quirky, deeper-than-deep voice, homespun poetic narratives, and decidedly uncommercial bent have found their way into the hearts of many via the label he and cohort Bob Feldman started specifically to promote his music, and which has incidentally become a viable home for many other artists over the years. That independent spirit is all over MILK OF THE MOON, where Brown refuses to fall into genre traps. If a song resembles a traditional blues too closely, he'll distort his voice till it sounds like he's singing from Tom Waits's bathroom. If a pastoral sonic landscape is in danger of becoming too precious he'll slather it with some stinging, distorted guitar.
Despite such twists, Brown's strength has always been simplicity, and he adheres admirably to that principle here. Part of the reason MILK OF THE MOON doesn't aspire to the junkyard orchestra heights of SLANT 6 MIND may be that Brown's guitarist/producer Bo Ramsey isn't on board. But it's just as likely that Brown just knew the best way to get these uncomplicated-but-trenchant tales of post-postmodern American life across was to present them with plenty of soul and a minimum of fuss.