This Love Is Real

by Dan Melchior, Dan Melchior's Broke Revue

Overview

Dan Melchior's music is "real," too, which is to say that he appears to have little interest in overdubbing, sampling, and other forms of sonic sweetening. Like the recordings he has made with Billy Childish (Devil in the Flesh) and, more significantly, singer/songwriter Holly Golightly and drummer Bruce Brand -- both of whom appear as members of the Broke Revue -- his sophomore release (after a hard to find debut) has an old-timey feel. The effect is due as much to his rough-hewn vocals as to the lo-fi production and retro-sounding material, a mixture of originals and covers of folk-blues classics by the likes of Joe Calicott and Mississippi Fred McDowell. This Love Is Real is a pleasing precursor to Melchior and Golightly's similarly easygoing collaboration, Desperate Little Town (2001). ~ Kathleen C. Fennessy

Product Details

Release Date:	09/28/1999
Label:	Sympathy For The Record Industry
UPC:	0790276057920
Rank:	224687

Tracks

1. The Longest Train
2. Your Happy Home
3. Laughing to Keep From Crying
4. Crow Jane
5. Waiting for My Baby
6. Bottom of the Sea
7. Wrong Inside
8. You Gotta Move
9. 2 Men
10. Falling Heart
11. Don't Let Our Love Go to Waste
12. You Don't Deserve Me

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Dan Melchior   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar,Banjo,Percussion
Dan Melchior's Broke Revue   Primary Artist
John Gibbs   Double Bass,Fiddle
Holly Golightly   Guitar (Bass),Bass,Guitar,Vocals (Background)
Bruno Meyrick Jones   Percussion,Guitar
Bruce Brand   Drums,Percussion

Technical Credits

Woodie Taylor   Audio Production,Producer
Traditional   Composer
Sonny Terry   Composer
Muddy Waters   Composer
Mississippi Fred McDowell   Composer
Dan Melchior   Composer,Paintings