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Artist:Bobbo Barnes Album: Sea Green Number 5
Label: Self Released
Tracks: 11
Website: http://www.bobbobarnes.com
Recorded in his living room in front of his titular painting and featuring tawny Ellis on backing vocals, this is the alt-country travelling troubadour's fourth album, opening with 'Queen Of The Party', guitar jangling ode to female musicians (which naturally includes the phrase sweetheart of the rodeo), continuing in similar relaxed mode with the mandolin-flecked 'Favourite Photograph', the pedal steel shaded 'When We Ride' and the slightly more uptempo mandolin led 'Eveline'.
It doesn't really move far from the basic sound template, although 'Geo's Jig' is a fiddle-based instrumental and 'Running Back To You' has bluesier inflections while the closing storytelling moving out of town 'Somewhere Else' opens with backwards tape before settling into familiar, steel-brushed style. The fingerpicked 'Every Sound That Crashes' relates to his experience of an active shooter situation, but it's hard to discern the Springsteen and Mellencamp comparisons that have been cast his way. Pleasant then, but not entirely essential.
Mike Davies
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