This is a good album with some moments that are much better than that. Overall it lands somewhere in the acoustic based pop territory with a lot of folk music built into it. There is some variation here, but not really enough to get us through. Additionally, the vocal cadence and melodies are too similar from song to song. That makes the whole set have a tendency to feel samey. It means that (for the most part) listening to an individual song or two is more enjoyable than sitting through the whole disc. There are a couple songs that are less successful, though. The vocals throughout have a tendency to skirt near to going off key without actually doing so. There are a couple places, though, where they do go off key pretty badly for short periods of time. That makes those songs a little tough to take. Still despite those shortcomings, this set is reasonably effective. That really says a lot about the quality of the music when taken song by song.

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I love the energized acoustic guitar motif that opens this. Although this song is just acoustic guitar and voice, it’s got a lot of intensity and a fast tempo. It lands sort of in the territory of acoustic rocker more than anything else.