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Hot Biscuit on a Cold Morning
Plum Bobs is a mature work by a master craftsman, born of the ozark hills
and living life on their paths less traveled by. Bob Runyon is true to himself
and the experience of living in this flown over paradise. He sings as if
to the squirrels and birds in an ozark glade rather than to thousands of
hipsters in a swirling cesspool of excitement. It is a fortunate byproduct
of the technological wonder that crams chopped, pressed and formed fad music
down unsuspecting throats that Bob Runyon can be heard. Just a man finding
joy in decorated time, the way they used to do. Everyone used to play and
sing for the joy of it because that was the only entertainment they had.
That joy is found in Plumb Bobs. Much has been gained in technological wonders
and much has been lost. you can hear that loss in the songs of Plumb Bobs.
There is a subtle sentimentality, not the blatant plucking of the heartstrings
like Cuntry Westren, but more like a soft mourning. Mass Music is Mass Marketed
to a Mass Audience. If this is the sountrack of your life, then a sidetrack
down the trails of Bob Runyons Music will expand your horizons. Big Orange
Allis is best and truest farming song i've ever heard. I'm a darlin' is
an object lesson about greed. Nothin's Pure explores the anxious fears of
those who still hear the voices of the old ones in this Brave New World.
All music from the experiences of a man at play in the fields of the Lord.
-- Mark Mercer, Noted Artist and Philosopher |
Ron Howard
would love this album, probably already does ... with its humorous and respectful
treatment of themes of change and loss in rural America. Especially Gooberwood...an
astonishing glimpse of Americana turned Disneyesque. These songs are true
to experience, heartfelt, but still light-hearted and full of fun. And what
a string band Bob's put together for this!
-- Lazlo Kovaks, producer and visionary for C3, and enigma |
