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john baumann Country Shade

6/12/2020

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​John Baumann (from the album Country Shade available on The Next Waltz) (by Bryant Liggett)
The latest from Texas singer/songwriter John Baumann taps into all the Country music themes: family and sense of place to belong, love and other emotions taking up space in the lost and found department. Country Shade is a recording in a new Country motif, John Baumann keeping a hint of Country Folk in his back pocket, wrapping the record in sentimental, Singer/Songwriter territory. Country Shade has studio polish, the polishing and clean production coupled with John Baumann’s ability to have his pen dig into your heart gives the album broad appeal. John Baumann yearns for steel guitar and fiddles in the nostalgic “Country Doesn’t Sound the Same”, exploring a shared belief that the music of yesterday beats the current crop of contenders. “Next Time Around the Sun” is a tender ballad that reminds us that our time is now and ‘as you age, time is gathering speed’ while “Homesick for the Heartland” searches for home on a loose-limbed 70’s Rock rhythm with slick riffs from a Jazz guitar.  
“Sunday Morning Going Up” changes direction as a play on Kris Kristofferson’s classic song with the similar title that, John Baumann playing it out with a jam-band groove. “Flight Anxiety” becomes an upbeat country rocker, and the star of the album, a sing-along cut with John Baumann namedropping anything that comes to mind that will take the edge off your flight nerves, hoping to not be the next “Stevie Ray or Buddy Holly.” The album closer is musically gritty and lyrically heavy, a ballad detailing family pride and loyalty. It is those values that resonate throughout the record when Country Shadeexplores American values and human troubles over a updated bed of Classic Country melodies. (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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