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Br5-49 (CD)

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Spin (11/96, pp.125-126) - 7 (out of 10) - "...in the great country tradition that spans Bob Wills and Asleep at the Wheel, [they] hear songs as reasons to jam, to say `Hey, there's a lot of music to this country music'....they're great players....[they make] purism seem pleasurable, not stiff-necked..."
Entertainment Weekly (9/27/96, p.81) - "A nice little revivalist honky-tonk/rockabilly band....they're a breath of fresh air in Music City's stultifying major-label atmosphere, a portent of possible change to come."
- Rating: B+
Q (10/96, p.156) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...Effortlessly blending '50s jukebox classics...with their own originals,...BR5-49 are so knowingly and lovingly retro that they contrive to sound wonderfully fresh throughout..."

Title Note

BR5-49: Gary Bennett (vocals, acoustic guitar); Chuck Mead (vocals, electric & acoustic guitars); Don Herron (steel guitar, dobro, fiddle, mandolin, acoustic guitar); Smilin' Jay McDowell (acoustic bass); "Hawk" Shaw Wilson (background vocals, drums).

Additional personnel: Mike Janas (acoustic guitar, 6-string bass, percussion).

Recorded at The Castle Recording Studios, Franklin, Tennessee and Woodland Digital, Nashville, Tennessee.

All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.

"Cherokee Boogie" was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.

Nasvhille's hottest signing of 1996 is a well-schooled (and tres cool) quintet that combines tradition with innovation to create a sound at once fresh and familiar. BR5-49 have obviously done their country homework, which is evident as much in their proficiency on steel guitar, fiddle and mandolin as in their covers of tunes by country legends Webb Pierce, Mel Tillis and Moon Mullican. Despite their honky-tonk roots, BR5-49 are an expansive country-rock unit who sound equally at home laying down a rockabilly beat on "Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)" and showing off their collective vocal chops on Gram Parsons' "Hickory Wind."

Vocalists/guitarists Chuck Mead and Gary Bennett are no slouches when it comes to original songs either. Mead's "Chains Of This Town" is a harrowing tale of a man on death row, with a snappy Mexican lilt that belies the dark subject matter. On "Are You Gettin' Tired Of Me" Bennett proves he doesn't have to dip into his record collection to come up with a classic country tearjerker.

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