Like to introduce you to a great début album of roots tinged rock and balladry from Nashville based singer-songwriter Pat Anderson – this eleven track album features nine Anderson original compositions, a track by the prolific “trad” and a excellent reworking of the Springsteen’s Dancing in the Dark.
Anderson’s often performs solo with his trust acoustic guitar and harmonica for company but on the album he’s got some Grade A support from Nick Buda (drums, percussion), ex-Jayhawk Jen Gunderman (piano, organ, accordion, harmonium) Tim Marks (bass), Rob McNelley (electric guitar) and multi-instrumentalist and Americana gun for hire Will Kimbrough (electric guitar, mandolin, banjo).
The album’s quality shines from beginning to end, kicking things of with a guitar drenched rocker Follow Me Down and ending with the title track Magnolia Road where a more economic sound wraps itself loosely around the words, in the age downloads the art of track sequencing sometimes gets overlooked to the detriment of a body of songs, this album manages to shift up and down the gears with ease bringing the best out of the collection on show.
