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(from Martin Charnin's notes to the cd:"Moodswing") "George Evans is on a mission. He's out to make us feel, or worse, think that we're twenty again. Along with Andre, George M, Dave, Greg, Steve, Art, And Kevin, Moodswing touches us in places that have been long unattended to, musically. This cd aims for the heart, the groin, the soul, and the memory bank without a single apology. He sings (occasionally relying on his dark vibrato which surfaces unexpectedly on the right low note at exactly the right part of the syllable being sung) songs mostly forgotten by the boomers, or relatively unknown to the x-generation, with a gorgeous respect for the lyric, as well as for the lyricist. (In the 60's I personally wrote 4 dozen songs with Harold Arlen and almost every session began with Harold noodling his favorite song on the piano - Fun To Be Fooled. I'm sorry he didn't live to hear this cd.) Years ago, in a world inhabited by 3 cent stamps, 2 dollar double features, Coke that didn't say "classic" on the can, and infrequent camera-cuts (among other things), when Nostalgia was just a word in the Roget, as opposed to a way of life, George's roots were planted. The tree is this album. So light a candle - not a joint - pour a couple of glasses of old Beaujolais, put on a pair of pyjamas that don't have a logo on the butt, shut call-coming, call-waiting, call-hounding, and invite a deserving non-talkative friend over to shut up, and then without wearing headphones, listen to this 50 minute treat Then in the words of Ira Gershwin (who?) - Do It Again." Martin Charnin 1997