Bill Morrissey (1984) ( )

Product Summary Label: Uni/philo UPC: 00011671110523 Release Date: 4/3/1992 Buy.com Sku: 60263664 Item#: MXSCMW Buy.com Sales Rank: 24954 Format:  CD Song Listing   Disc 1 Song Title 1. Barstow 2. Small Town On The River 3. Darlin' Lisa 4. Oil Money 5. Morrissey Falss In Love At First Sight 6. Texas Blues 7. My Baby And Me 8. Packard Company, The 9. Problem With Logic, The 10. Run You Through The Mill 11. Grizzly Bear 12. Rosie 13. Live Free Or Die 14. Little Bit Of Whiskey 15. Amnesia   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info BILL MORRISSEY was re-recorded it its entirety for its release on CD. It contains three tracks that were not available on the original vinyl issue. Bill Morrissey's 1984 debut took an interesting turn when it was reissued on compact disc in 1991: Morrissey re-recorded the album in its entirety and added three extra songs. The results are impressive, as the singer/songwriter brings an added resonance to the songs, the byproduct of the years that he spent seasoning and getting familiar with the material. These finely detailed vignettes, supported solely by Morrissey's acoustic guitar work, marked the beginning of the career of a startlingly good songwriter. His poetic observations create riveting imagery, as in "Barstow," where he sings in the chorus, "Don't the freight yard sound like a drunk in a metalshop." This excellent storyteller knows how to create the characters who populate his songs, breathing life into them with a voice capable of pathos, humor, sympathy, anger, and more.   Artist Overview With his quirky, old-man drawl and folkie fingerpicking style, it's easy to forget how literate and sophisticated Bill Morrissey is--that is, until one focuses on his lyrics. With a career that spans more than three decades beginning in the mid 1980s, Morrissey relates his tales of real people going through hard times with a novelistic skill. Fittingly, he's a published novelist as well as an acclaimed singer-songwriter. He is also one of modern music's rare regionalists: much of his work is suggestive of his New England home. Artist Influences Bob Dylan | Dave Van Ronk | Guy Clark | Hank Williams | John Prine | Johnny Cash | Mississippi John Hurt | Tim Hardin | Townes Van Zandt Artist Contemporaries Andrew Calhoun | Chuck Brodsky | Cliff Eberhardt | Cormac McCarthy | Dave Moore | David Gray | David Massengill | David Wilcox | Ed Alkalay | Ferron | Greg Brown | Jack Hardy | John Gorka | Johnny Cunningham | Michael Smith | Steve Forbert   Compilation Appearances Philo So Far-20th Anniversary Hills Of Home-25 Years Of Folk Rounder 25th Anniversary Box S Homeless Project   Technical Info Release Date : 06/1991 Original Release Date : 1984 Catalog ID : 711 105 Label : Rounder Select Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00011671110523    Product Image