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Barry Mauer
Fantasy Life
Genre: Folk

Track Listings (13) - Disc #1
1. Don't Wait
2. Theresa's Lease
3. Repetition
4. Need
5. Lit Up
6. Fantasy Life
7. Home
8. I Can Tell
9. Personal Letter
10. Still Familiar Juice
11. What It Means To Be In Love
12. Underestimate Me
13. Withered and Died

CD Details

All Artists: Barry Mauer
Title: Fantasy Life
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Goldentone
Original Release Date: 7/1/2003
Release Date: 7/1/2003
Genre: Folk
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 643157271321

Synopsis

Album Description

The first four songs of Fantasy Life are a wide ranging sample of music by the band Look Here Sister, of which Mauer was a part in the 1990s; we find country, melodic punk, pop, and a beautiful folk-waltz. The remaining tracks represent Mauer's solo work, a mixture of Hank Williams, The McGarrigle Sisters, Nick Drake, Paul Westerberg, Wilco, the Jayhawks, Buddy Holly, and Richard Thompson. In a tribute to Richard Thompson, Mauer concludes the album with a cover of Thompson's sadly beautiful ballad "Withered and Died."

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CD Reviews

Lovely melodies and sincere storytelling

Barry Mauer | Orlando, FL | 01/24/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"John Thomason of the UCF Independent Journal about Mauer's first CD, Fantasy Life :

The songs on Fantasy Life are as fresh as they are nostalgic, as addictive as they are simple. More polished than Paul Westerberg's rustic solo work and more overtly relatable than Wilco's curious wordplay, Mauer's songwriting is delivered with genuine aplomb. Standout track 'Still Familiar Juice' is as accurate a song about sinking into the deceptive comfort of alcohol as anything Tom Waits has penned. His music taps into a melancholic timelessness. A true auteur."