''Dream Café'' is an album by American
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singer/guitarist
Greg Brown, released in 1992. It was produced by Bo Ramsey. It is a Red House release.
Reception
Music critic David Freedlander praised the release in his
Allmusic
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review, writing Brown "Brown produces an album as light and refreshing as a summer breeze. Although it is plagued by the inconsistency which characterizes most of his studio work, some of his most heartfelt and enduring songs can be found on this album..."
Bill Wyman of ''
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'' wrote "... on ''Dream Café'' he's more varied musically — he'll do a grinding blues and even flirt with jazz. Also, he wields simpler but more forceful melodies, and is still very capable of pulling off a marvelous portrait, as in the moving ''Spring Wind.''"
Track listing
All songs by Greg Brown.
# "Just by Myself" – 4:45
# "Sleeper" – 4:28
# "I Don't Know That Guy" – 4:51
# "So Hard" – 2:38
# "You Can Watch Me" – 3:37
# "Dream Cafe" – 5:55
# "You Drive Me Crazy" – 4:56
# "Spring Wind" – 4:32
# "Nice When it Rains" – 3:10
# "Laughing River" – 4:16
# "No Place Away" – 4:10
# "I Don't Want to Be the One" – 3:24
Personnel
*Greg Brown – vocals, guitar, harmonica
*Bo Ramsey – guitar
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Tim Sparks (born October 31, 1954) is an American Steel-string guitar, acoustic guitar player, singer, arranger and composer.
Life
Raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he was given his first guitar when a bout of encephalitis kept him out of ...
– requinto
*Robin Adnan Anders – percussion, tabla, tupan, dourbakee
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Gordon Johnson – bass
*Dan Lund – guitar
*Kate McKenzie – background vocals
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Willie Murphy – piano, organ
Production
*Produced by Bo Ramsey
*Engineered by Tom Tucker
*Mixed by Bob Feldman
References
External links
"The Ten Best Albums of 1992" Fast Folk Musical Magazine, (February 1993) p.12-13
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Greg Brown (folk musician) albums
1992 albums
Red House Records albums