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http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/47339/greg-brown-yellow-dog/Greg BrownYellow Dog[Music Notebook Live in the Upper Peninsula](Earthwork Music)US release date: 7 August 2007UK release date: 24 September 2007by Steve HorowitzGreg Brown has always enjoyed a reputation as a charismatic live musician and a sucker for a good cause. This disc packages both of these traits as the recording of a benefit show from back in 2005 for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan’s Yellow Dog Watershed in an eco-friendly case made out of recycled materials. It’s a typical Brown show. His low, rumbling voice exudes cool as he offers personal, matter-of-fact observations about life. When Brown sings about thunderstorms, as in “Conesville Slough”, you understand the natural ones described mirror the ones going on in his heart. Brown makes fun of his lack of subtlety, but the truth is he always means more than what he says whether he’s talking about the bullshit of corporate American politics and the war for oil or how life in the past may be better than today. He leads with his heart and lets his head follow. The profits from the sale of the album aid the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve. Greg Brown - Better Days (live) — 27 August 2007Related articles
Best Folk of 2006Steve Horowitz20.Dec.06English and Scottish ballads, Cajun songs, protest music, and covers of everything from Mississippi John Hurt to Prince populate this year's notable folk records. 
Review: Greg Brown: The Evening CallSteve Horowitz24.Aug.06Yeah, Brown's vocals are so goddamn weird that they get the brunt of a listener's attention. The voice seems to come from somewhere deep in his stomach and get strangled by his liver, lungs, and kidneys on the way to his mouth. That's a good thing.
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