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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: John Southworth (formerly Parks and Recreation (formerly |
| Date | Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:21:15 -0400 |
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From: "Gene Good" <javagene@hotmail.com>
> Stewart,
> The Parks and Recreation sounds like an immediate grab for me.But I
> am not familiar with John Southworth,and I see he has several
> albums.Is there a "must Have' or oine I just have to start with.I
> know he has been mentioned here before.
I think his debut album MARS PENNSYLVANIA is an absolute masterpiece,
possibly the great lost pop record of the mid-'90s. It's full-on
chamber pop, with a lot of Bacharach-style arrangements, and I also
hear a lot of 10cc, VENUS AND MARS-era Wings, KIMONO-era Sparks and
other bits of '70s AM pop. (He comes by it honestly: John
Southworth's dad is Peter Shelley, a noted British songwriter-producer
of the glam-rock era.) Conveniently, it's also the only one of his
albums that was released in the states; he's based in Toronto, and
most of his albums are difficult to locate outside of Canada, but you
can get them through his website, www.johnsouthworth.ca (sound files
are there as well).
I actually haven't gotten to his brand-new one yet, but in order of
preference, I'd say:
MARS, PENNSYLVANIA
YOSEMITE
SEDONA, ARIZONA
ROSE MILK, APPALACHIA (an EP of songs from SEDONA, ARIZONA redone with
an acoustic bluegrass band)
BANFF SPRINGS, TRANSYLVANIA
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