Moreland & Arbuckle - Just A Dream

Size: 309 MB
Time: 48:21
File: Flac
Released: 2011
Styles: Roots rock, Electric blues
Art: Front, tray

1. The Brown Bomber (4:51)
2. Just a Dream (3:46)
3. Purgatory (4:11)
4. Travel Every Mile (4:50)
5. Heartattack And Vine (3:48)
6. Troll (5:17)
7. Gypsy Violin (1:37)
8. Shadow Never Changes (4:06)
9. Good Love (3:47)
10. Who Will Be Next (3:00)
11. So Low (5:27)
12. White Lightnin' (3:36)

On its fourth and finest album, the Kansas hill-country blues duo of Aaron Moreland and Dustin Arbuckle stages a compelling coming of age party. All the elements defining the group’s astonishing 1861 (2008) and powerhouse Flood (2010) coalesce here. M&A’s attack, bolstered by the solid drumming/percussion of Brad Horner, is about body blows and haymakers—a relentless, charging, country-blues style, rough and raw as fashioned by Arbuckle’s muscular, crying vocals and raw, wailing harmonica, backed up by Moreland’s intense, relentless, often fuzzed-out guitar (traditional electric and custom cigar box both). Chris Wiser joins up to add honky-tonk keyboard to the stomping blues of “The Brown Bomber” and moaning, Gregg Allman- esque B3 shadings to a swaggering take on Tom Waits’ “Heartattack and Vine.” This bigger sound suits M&A—“Shadow Never Changes,” dark musings that may well be a comment on a nation in crisis, features the organ, harp, and guitar in heat, erecting an imposing wall of malevolent sound ahead of a subdued but telling exhale signaling song’s end. Producer Moreland keeps the sonics hot and in your face throughout, the instruments and Arbuckle’s fervent singing constituting a united, full-throttle, rock ’n’ blues assault. It’s a beautiful thing.

Just A Dream FLAC

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