[NewCD] Tim Harrison CD

[Second Avenue]

Hello,

Second Avenue Records is pleased to let folks know about Tim Harrison's
new, self-titled CD.

Produced by Tim and Joao Carvalho, "Tim Harrison" is a high energy album
with strong folk, celtic and country influences, featuring Tim's poetic
lyrics and compelling vocals. The CD showcases his beautifully wrought
arrangements which are known for evoking the essence and mood of a song as
powerfully and poetically through melody as through verse. 

"Tim Harrison" is a journey into the past and present, featuring five new
songs, one interpretation ("Coal Tattoo" by Billy Edd Wheeler), and new
arrangements of songs from his pre-CD releases: "In The Barroom Light"
(produced by David Essig) and "Train Going East" (produced by Stan Rogers).

Accompanying Tim (6- and 12-string guitars, piano and mandola) are some of
Canada's finest musicians: Rick Whitelaw (flat-picked guitar), Zeke Mazurek
(fiddle), Kim Deschamps (dobro), Loretto Reid (penny whistle, concertina),
Dennis Pendrith (Bass), Chris Whiteley (trumpet), and a host of other
talented artists. 

Reviews are starting to come in, and I've provided two below (Rambles,
Toronto.Com).

Lisa Weitz
Artist Representative
Second Avenue Records

For more information, please visit Tim's website:
<http://www.interlog.com/~second/tim.htm>

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Distributed by Festival Distribution <http://www.festival.bc.ca/>. "Tim
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RAMBLES <http://www.rambles.net/>:

	"Tune up the bus, pack some clothes and head for Toronto! If there weren't
already so many rave reviews about Tim Harrison, I'd swear my eclectic
roots were showing. Tim is a true folky with enough power to top the charts
time after time.

	First thing you should know about is his background. Based in Ontario,
this singer, songwriter and artistic director has been one of the most
active figures in the Canadian folk music scene for many years. He has a
resume to rival George Lucas's and he truly knows how to deliver. Just look
at these credentials: artistic director of the Summerfolk Music and Crafts
Festival (Owen Sound), the All-Canadian Mariposa Festival, Northwinds and
the Englewood Festival. What more do we need to know, except why isn't he
better known in America?

	The man has developed a definitive tone of his own. The whole Harrison
package suggests a writer who's mature, yet doesn't jade the world with
depressing concepts that often flood music of this genre. He writes using a
unique blend of traditional and contemporary folk with a country base and a
pervasive essence of spiritual/Celtic moods. His guitar charges on with
powerful rhythms, some smokin' country leads and countless other melodic
incantations. Everybody gets equal time to shine. Vocal themes do center
around the typical love, hope and relationship subjects, but his unique
approach creates a magnetic originality. Tim Harrison is spiritual and
serious with an occasional easygoin' release. He keeps it real.

	Tim is essentially the Bob Dylan I always wanted to hear. The words all
plead with powerful desperation and make you a true believer. His desperate
vocal quality has a way of reaching through your chest, gripping your heart
and forcing you to remember Shakespeare's words, "To thine ownself be
true." You can't listen to this album without gaining some sense of therapy.

	He tears at hidden truths in a realistic sense in "Inside This Song" with
words like these:

	It's funny how a passion's fire
	Can make flames that burn as ice
	And how love makes us a liar
	An alchemy to sacrifice

	But fear not a-coming of age too early, he always leaves us with a
flickering light of hope. One thing that distinguishes the quality of a
songwriter is whether or not it is full enough to hear it a different way
each time it spins. Well, rest assured, you'll find no shortage on the menu
here. Tim's included a vast number of instruments, and each song has just
the right mix for the mood. The spectrum of sounds includes emotional
fiddle and pennywhistle lines, country twangin' dobro, an occasional
soulful saxophone, and more.

	Nineteen artists in all, so get ready to be moved by a full chorus of
voices. Tim plays 6- and 12-string guitars, piano and mandola. Guests
include Rick Whitelaw on flat-picked guitar, Al Cross on drums, Dennis
Pendrith on bass, Kim Deschamps on dobro and steel guitars, Kevin Gould on
Hammond organ and accordion, and Zeke Mazurek on fiddle.

	There is so much thoughtfulness in these recordings that I'm going to seek
out his first four albums, too.

	- John Varner

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TORONTO.COM

	"Harrison is a wizard with words, wringing poetry from our everyday
struggles and making those subtle shifts in imagery that make a great
songwriter. Harrison has the all-too-rare ability to reach inside and body
forth lyrics that are from the heart and real. The true heritage of folk
music - alive not archival. 

	- Geoff Hays