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Drive-In Movie
This CD won a Juno Award (the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy Award) in 1996.
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"[Fred Eaglesmith] has made a significant contribution to a new feature on the landscape of American Music. It's not folk, it's not country, it's not rock -- although it owes a debt to all three. It is a musical form as American as apple pie, and just as delicious. A mixture of acoustic and electric instrumentation, these tunes grab a hold of you and don't let go.... Fred's clear and simple observations of the world of dirt and grit, the knuckle-busting, pick-up driving mechanics, and cowboys, are hung on a spare but concise musical framework that perfectly accents and brings them to life. His band has a familiarity with their instruments that bespeaks endless hours in motel rooms, someone's garage/warehouse or in some practice hall, playing the same tunes, the same chord changes until that point is reached where one no longer 'thinks' about the music, about the mechanics of playing the notes, and begins to 'feel' it. That point, where creativity, feeling and purpose merge and MUSIC happens. This is good stuff. Fred wrote all of the songs and they are great; it is hard to imagine that any one of them could have been done differently. Each song is perfect. " -- Rambles
'Good Enough,' from his 1996 masterpiece, Drive In Movie, shows the potential intensity of the crazed mood: 'She's quieter now. She's not as tough. But it was different when I was good enough. -- When I was good enough, and we lived the life. Good enough and she carried a knife.' " -- Tucson Weekly
"Whether he's writing about love, sex or heartbreak, Eaglesmith keeps finding new and imaginative ways to use that most American of symbols to illuminate emotional turbulence. There's nothing unique about using cars in pop songs, but on "Drive-In Movie" Eaglesmith has turned the mundane into a new art form. The emotional realism of his weary vocals, sort of a cross between Bruce Springsteen and Randy Newman, and the economy of his line combine to propel Eaglesmith to the front line of contemporary singer-songwriters, alongside the likes of John Hiatt and Bill Morrissey, both of whom he also resembles." -- The Berkshire Eagle
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