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Deer Tick
The Black Dirt Sessions
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Choir Of Angels
2. Twenty Miles
3. Goodbye, Dear Friend
4. Piece By Piece and Frame By Frame
5. The Sad Sun
6. Mange
7. When She Comes Home
8. Hand In My Hand
9. I Will Not Be Myself
10. Blood Moon
11. Christ Jesus

CD Details

All Artists: Deer Tick
Title: The Black Dirt Sessions
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Partisan Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 6/8/2010
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 720841900825

Synopsis

Product Description

Deer Tick is the songwriting project or band (depending on how you look at it) of John McCauley, a singer/songwriter based out of Providence, Rhode Island. Thanks to the help of Brendon "Viking Moses" Massei, McCauley has been ferociously zig-zagging across the United States, hitting all the sparsely attended basement shows, smoky bars, upscale joints, small to medium size festivals, and everything in between, since April of 2005.

McCauley takes his cues from legendary songwriters such as Townes Van Zant, Neil Young and Ritchie Valens, and big stage personalities like Sammy Davis Jr., and Tony Bennett. Like Tony Bennett, McCauley loves the art of vocal projection and will often perform without the aid of microphones, but for his whole set. His influences are something that set his live shows apart from most other acts. The Deer Tick experience is something that can be fun and heart wrenching at the same time. The performance is usually riddled with jokes, but always with a genuine and serious message that is delivered sincerely to the listener.

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CD Reviews

Too melancholy

MusicFan | Boston | 06/11/2010

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Since I loved "Born on Flag Day" I picked this up when i saw it on promotion. Sadness permeates this release but it does have some good songs, it's just a tougher listen. IF BOFD wore it's influences on it's sleeve, this effort shows a maturity that demonstrates those influences have been synthesized and turned into a voice that stands on it's own. This voice is the equivalent of a charcoal drawing, it can be beautiful but it can also make you wonder what a splash of color would have brought to it."

Big Suprise

M. Jones | 06/12/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I bought this album as the "album of the day" special, and I was really surprised at how much i love it. On the first listen I could tell this was an amazing album."

An underrated, and often under appreciated album

M. Slack | 07/09/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I have been a long time Deer Tick fan, and about 1 out of 3 people I show them too are not terribly impressed. Maybe its John's harsh unconventional voice, or country pickin', or they are turned off because a new and well respected band is doing little to nothing to be "hip". After this initial dislike, I play Deer Tick around them enough, they always seem to come around. There is just an honestly, and infectious nature to John's songwriting and singing that is undeniable. They may not give a darn about their image, or if anything try to counteract this falseness that seems to loom around even some of the best bands, and get back to what was so great about early rock and roll. The Black Dirt Sessions keeps this trueness so to speak, and is my favorite of their album's to date. Something that "Black Dirt" has that neither War Elephant or Born on Flag Day is a cohesiveness and seriousness that was needed for the boys from RI, to fully mature as a band. Its not nearly as rambunctious as their previous albums, and certainly not as much as their Ep - More fuel for the Fire. But thats okay. It is a beautiful demonstration that they are capable of a variety of song types, and should not be disregarded in those respects. Mr. McCauley writes from a much more personal place, and lets us see a whole new side of Deer Tick."