YOU GOT NO SAY ROUND HERE: Bob Bradshaw - vocals/guitar, Chad Manning - fiddle/mandolin, Scoop McGuire - bass, Annie Lynch - vocals.
ANOTHER DAY IN THE LIFE: Bob Bradshaw - vocals/guitar, Chad Manning - fiddle/mandolin, Scoop McGuire - bass.
BAG OF KNIVES: Bob Bradshaw - vocals/guitar, Chad Manning - fiddle/mandolin, Scoop McGuire - bass.
FROM THE 2-STEP TO THE 12-STEP ONCE AGAIN: Bob Bradshaw - vocals/guitar, Chad Manning - fiddle, Scoop McGuire - bass.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?: Bob Bradshaw - vocals/guitar, Robert Powell - dobro/vocals, Jon Preuss - guitar, Seth Asarnow - bandoneon, Scoop McGuire - bass, Mark McCartney - drums.
HIT THE ROAD, ANGELA: Bob Bradshaw - vocals/guitar, Scoop McGuire - guitar/bass, Tommy Kesecker - vibes, Bruce Kurnow - harmonica, Mark McCartney - drums, bongos.
ANGIE: Bob Bradshaw - vocals/guitar, Jon Preuss - guitar, Robert Powell - dobro/Weissenborn, Seth Asarnow - bandoneon, Scoop McGuire - bass, Mark McCartney - drums.
THE BIG MISTAKE: Bob Bradshaw - vocals/guitar, Robert Powell - pedal-steel/ guitar, Jon Preuss - guitar, Scoop McGuire - bass, Mark McCartney - drums.
CRUEL RECIPE: Bob Bradshaw - vocals/guitar, Chad Manning - fiddle/mandolin, Scoop McGuire - bass.
TOMORROW IS A BETTER DAY TO DIE: Bob Bradshaw - vocals/guitar, Jon Preuss - guitar,
Scoop McGuire - keyboards/bass, Mark McCartney - drums.
Influences
John Hiatt, Ron Sexsmith, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Tom Waits, Paul Simon, Darrell Scott, Guy Clark, Warren Zevon, Townes Van Zandt, Ron Kavana, Mick Hanly, Harry Nilsson, Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin, Neil Finn, Elliot Smith, Greg Brown, Van Morrison, Randy Newman, The Band, Los Lobos, The Pogues
Live at the Berklee Performance Center, Boston, with Annie Lynch, Jordan Alegant, Duncan Wickel, Forrest O'Connor and Dan Gurney
John Hiatt's "Crossing Muddy Waters" at Berklee.
Reviews of Bag Of Knives:
from “Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange” reviewer, Mark S. Tucker: “Whoa, now here's a discovery! This is dyed-in-the-wool folk music and then some. Every song is stripped down to allow the full emotional content through, Bob Bradshaw singing in world-weary wistful tones and playing guitar while Chad Manning rasps a mournful fiddle and twangs his mandolin in an airy threnody of urban pangs and pains. The two go together like hound dog and hobo, neither missing a trick in the human experience while tramping the byways and highways, forever heading towards a forlorn setting sun.
Bradshaw is an attendee of Boston's Berklee School of Music while Manning has recorded and toured with David Grisman but also sat in with the likes of J.D. Crowe and Tony Trischka. Darol Anger has commented very favorably on his plaintive skills, calling him "one of the most expressive" of the new fiddlers. Together, the two lads produce some of the best folkie sounds since the 60s and 70s, understanding the mode marrow deep. You couldn't find a better time machine than Bag of Knives.
One of the many great aspects of this disc is the fact that it hangs together like a piece of architecture, every cut supporting its brothers and sisters, a quiet symphony of ghostly and evanescent airs from the old days gently passing through to tomorrow. Cruel Recipe is vaguely Randy Newman-ish, circa Sail Away, but these guys owe nothing to anyone, creating a sound with clear antecedents while thieving nothing, thus reinvigorating—if that's the correct verb for such a laconic collection (save for From the 2-Step to the 12-Step Once Again, a spritely number)—the esteemed mode in the beginning of the 21st century. This is one Bag of Knives that lands softly on the ear.”
Minor 7th.com, David Kleiner: "Throughout, the lyrics are as carefully chosen as every note on this elegant album. (The lack of a lyric insert is unforgivable!) Downtempo tunes dominate and sadness lingers. But there's more than enough beauty and inventiveness to lift the coldest heart. The waltz-able refrain ("Dance with me") of "Desert Waltz" -- the tale of a soldier's deployment and return -- brims with longing effectively mirrored by Manning's playing. "Please" features the wish-I'd-written "snug as a gun" (by way of Seamus Heaney?) and "the shock that shook me speechless." "Another Day in the Life" overlays detail on detail on top of insistent bass and fiddle as it moves toward its inevitable but still devastating conclusion. "From The 2-Step To The 12-Step Once Again," brings welcome humor while proving these guys know their way around a swing tune. This "Bag of Knives" is sharp: lovely, affecting, and original."
Bob's Irish, a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston. His new album 'Bag of Knives', recorded with Chad Manning of the David Grisman Bluegrass Experience, is now available at CD Baby. Formerly singer, songwriter and guitar-player with the San Francisco roots-rockers Resident Aliens, noted by the San Francisco Herald for "their exhilarating music" which "served as the soundtrack for many of our favorite memories of San Francisco," Bob appeared on Ron Kavana's album "Irish Ways" alongside Shane McGowan and Paddy Keenan and others last year.
"A cross between Ray Davies, Randy Newman and Ryan Adams", says Taxi. "Thank God for alliteration", says Bob.
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Hey! i wished you had stayed on monday, i thought your songs were fantastic. You were the only i was sure i wanted in the finals :) glad to be friends, you're great. xoxo raina
. A problem with the MySpace player (or my computer) ... so will have to return for a listen.
