[FM] Re:slaid

[Shaun Belcher]

just to throw in my twopennyworth

by the way it's copyright All Muisc Guide for ever and then some 
and I've got a teeny check to prove it......no I don't write for 
them no more....too renumerative.

(By the way if there are any British readers Mr.Cleaves will be 
playing the 12-Bar London later this year.)

 This 1997 offering was produced by Lucinda Williams band guitarist 
Gurf Morlix and comes out of similar singer-songwriter territory. The 
acoustic band feel that ran through his previous small label 
recordings with Maine band the Moxie Men combines with the Texas 
troubadour tradition to produce a sound resembling that of Peter 
Case, Darden Smith or Robert Earl Keen. A song from his early days 
revisited, a co-write with childhood friend Rod Picott in "Wrecking 
Ball," and  others capture small-town stories as well as Morlix's 
more famous employer.  There's also a hint of Springsteen's passion 
for cars, rivers and bleak  working-class lives on tracks such as 
"Last of the V-8's" or the defiant "Not  Going Down." The fine 
production enhances a set every bit as good as his 1992  Life's Other 
Side, which led to Cleaves receiving a Kerrville New Folk songwriter  
award, or the 1993 self-released For the Brave and Free which 
employed a host  of Austin musicians. File under literate 
country-tinged folk-rock with a touch of  swing. -- Shaun Belcher, 
All Music Guide 

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