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Brushfire Fairytales

Retail Price (not our price): $13.98
Release Date: 2002-01-29
Manufacturer: Umvd Labels
Discs: 1

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Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Product Description
From its humble beginnings, Brushfire Fairytaleslaunched the meteoric career of singer/songwriter JackJohnson. It has sold over two million albums in theUS, and continues to be one of the best sellers in hiscatalog. Now, the album returns home to Everloving, thelabel that started it all, and has been remastered withBernie Grundman Mastering.Jack Johnson: vocals, guitars, pianoAdam Topol: drums, percussionMerlo Podlewski: bassBen Harper: slide guitar (appears courtesy of Virgin Records America)

2) Amazon.com
Fans of Willy Porter, Ben Harper, and G. Love will all want to check out Jack Johnson's engaging folk- and blues-inflected pop. Born in Oahu, Hawaii, Johnson, a former surfer and film-school graduate, has a knack for acoustic ballads whose calm surfaces hide a subtle but strong lyrical undertow. "It seems to me that 'maybe' pretty much always means 'no,'" sings Johnson on "Flake," which features crony Harper on slide guitar. Production by J.P. Plunier (who also handles Harper's recordings) is simple and uncluttered: acoustic guitar and drum tracks share the foreground with Johnson's easygoing vocals, which evoke everyone from G. Love (who recorded Johnson's "Rodeo Clowns" on his Philadelphonic album) to Nick Drake to Willy Porter. And while Johnson may not have Porter's guitar chops, these songs have a relaxed beauty and understated depth that reward repeated listening. --Bill Forman


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