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Neal Casal releases a new LP, Basement Dreams, in the UK.
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NEAL CASAL
BASEMENT DREAMS
Glitterhouse GRCD458 (69m 21s)
This acclaimed itinerant US singer-songwriter's third album is actually a set of home demos. Getting a strong response from friends, he decided to release them warts and all, rather than re-record them and run the risk of losing their spontanaeity. Smart move. Casal is equally at home as an introspective acoustic troubadour and as a quirky electric roots maestro. The boy/girl duet, Outskirts, is one of the prettiest heartaches you'll hear this year; I Run And Hide is a superb slice of ragtimey jugband enlivened by tasty slide guitar licks; and Delaware Station is steeped in dusty Americana. Casal rarely rocks as hard as, say, Wilco, but he shares much of the same left-field country rock territory as them or The Jayhawks and this is a lovely album. That's the good news. The bad news is, you just missed his UK tour.
Johnny Black - review in Hi Fi News July 1999
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BASEMENT DREAMS
Glitterhouse GRCD458 (69m 21s)
This acclaimed itinerant US singer-songwriter's third album is actually a set of home demos. Getting a strong response from friends, he decided to release them warts and all, rather than re-record them and run the risk of losing their spontanaeity. Smart move. Casal is equally at home as an introspective acoustic troubadour and as a quirky electric roots maestro. The boy/girl duet, Outskirts, is one of the prettiest heartaches you'll hear this year; I Run And Hide is a superb slice of ragtimey jugband enlivened by tasty slide guitar licks; and Delaware Station is steeped in dusty Americana. Casal rarely rocks as hard as, say, Wilco, but he shares much of the same left-field country rock territory as them or The Jayhawks and this is a lovely album. That's the good news. The bad news is, you just missed his UK tour.
Johnny Black - review in Hi Fi News July 1999