CD Details
- Released: May 31, 2010
- Label: Oh Boy
Entertainment Reviews:
CMJ - 5/27/02, p.12
"...Witty, often heartbreaking and always sincere, assembled from well-worn scraps of country, blues and folk..."
Tracks:
- 1.New Connection
- 2.Vinyl Records
- 3.Rose City
- 4.Beer Run
- 5.Easy
- 6.Crooked Piece of Time
- 7.Anywhere
- 8.Stuck All Night
- 9.Statistician's Blues
- 10.Class of 85
- 11.Broke
- 12.Close Enough to You
- 13.Waco Moon
Product Description:
Personnel includes: Todd Snider, John Prine, Kim Richey, Jason Wilber, Dave Jacques, Will Kimbrough, Paul Griffith.
Audio Mixers: R.S. Field; Jim DeMain.
Recording information: Hum Depot.
Photographer: Jim Shea.
New Connection -- Todd Snider's fifth album and the second for John Prine's Oh Boy label -- finds the singer riding atop a warm band featuring Jason Wilber and David Jacques (both of Prine's touring unit), Paul Griffith, and Will Kimbrough. Like Kevn Kinney, Snider's voice alternates between a drawl and a scratch, occasionally dropping into Jim White-like whispers. It is in these cracks that Snider finds a wry strength, which he hangs on his almost traditional singer/songwriter wares. There are humorous tunes -- "Vinyl Records," "Beer Run," and "Statistician's Blues" -- but they're rarely anything more than cute. "Broke," meanwhile, sounds like a Nashville version of Lou Reed's "Goodnight Ladies." Snider gets a few elegiac beauties into the mix, too, including the subtly produced "Easy" and the almost heartbreaking "Class of 85." These are fine songs. Prine takes a guest turn on his own "Crooked Piece of Time," which fits in with the rest of the record almost too well. ~ Jesse Jarnow
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