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Falls of Richmond
Matt Brown
5SP08002
Falls of Richmond is Matt Brown's second studio release. His first, Lone Prairie,
featured mostly instrumental numbers with great support from Paul Brown and Beverly
Smith. This new album is just Matt, and it includes four tracks of him singing. The
songs range from If The River Was Whiskey, sung in a relaxed manner with a jazzy
guitar backup, to Shortenin' Bread, an a cappella game song followed by the fiddle
tune of the same name. Matt switches between fiddle, banjo and guitar for the vocal
numbers as well as the instrumentals. As on Lone Prairie, there is both common and
rare material. Matt plays fiddle and banjo on Mississippi Sawyer, then on the
next track evokes the lonesome Kentucky sound with solo cross-tuned fiddle tune,
Brushy Fork of John's Creek. The album finishes with two original compositions,
one on fiddle, the other on guitar. The fiddle tune could almost be mistaken for
a traditional number. The guitar tune, though more modern-sounding, still evokes
the mournful sentiment that pervades American roots music.
