Play it "every day"
Phillip Garner | Winston-Salem, NC USA | 03/13/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Bob Chaney deserves a lot more exposure than he gets. This music isn't for everyone, I use a lot of discretion in what I let my 9 year old son hear, but Bob is a rare talent and is the kind of artist that Nashville desparately needs to salvage the sinking ship that is today's contemporary country music. Bob's music is quite mature, themes range from successful thievery ("Got Away With It") to a woman's early-mid-life crisis ("Heather All Bummed Out") to substance abuse ("Dying Breed") to suicide ("Weight of the World"). "Where Are You Tonight" is about Bob's loss of his teenage son Zachary; this may not be the best song Bob's ever sung (that is debatable) but it certainly is the best Bob's ever sung a song (and that's saying a lot!). From start to finish, perhaps excluding the uncredited cover of Clarence Carters' "Patches" (where'd Bob come up with this one?!), these are well crafted songs sung by a voice that cannot be easily ignored. And Bob's secret weapon, harmony vocals by Allison Moorer, only makes it more difficult to take the CD out of my player. Buy this CD, in the time you have left play it "every day", "every day", "every day", "every day", ...................... "every day"!"
Honest as they come.
Bt | Parts unknown | 07/21/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"A beauty. This guy's the real deal,and he's better than 99.9% of the music that's out there. Country rock in every sense of the word. The lyrics are awesome and the music is blazing. Also,anyone who hangs out with Allison Moorer's alright in my books. Grab this before it goes out of print;you know how these small labels can be."