More gospel pop than Odd Man In, this record with his band The O'Boys lets us hear O'Brien run down Dylan's "When I Paint My Masterpiece," the bluegrass spiritual "Church...
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This is one of Tim O'Brien's most engaging projects. Known as a writer, he chooses here to co-write with others, including sister Mollie O'Brien, Hal Ketchum, and the...
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In case you had forgotten, this album will remind how pertinent and beautiful the songs of Bob Dylan are. The trouble with Tim O'Brien is that he makes it seem so easy; the...
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It might be a cliché to say that to understand where you are and where you're going, you must know where you've been, but it's a very accurate cliché -- especially when it...
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Itinerant American folk musician Tim O'Brien has been on a tear since 1996's Red on Blonde, bluegrass interpretations of Bob Dylan songs (and don't laugh, it stands as one...
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Traveler arrives like some horseman from the dusty past. His news is blunt, if not apocalyptic, with warnings that the future promises only "rotting flesh and broken bone."...
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Music has occasionally been born of a couple of friends playing both new and familiar songs in a relaxed setting. Words that are often used to describe the music they make...
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