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In the early fall of 2005, Tim O'Brien simultaneously released two albums, Cornbread Nation and Fiddler's Green, on Sugar Hill. And while both dig deep into the fabric of American roots music, the albums also revealed O'Brien's split musical personality, a split that dates back to his work with Hot Rize/Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers during the 1980s. Fiddler's Green gives birth to the more conservative side of his neo-traditional core while still allowing him to delve into Celtic and Appalachian folk, bluegrass, and old-timey. Much of the material here, as on Cornbread Nation, is traditional, featuring well-worn icons like "Pretty Fair Maid in the Garden" and "Buffalo Skinners." As one might guess, the arrangements are fairly low-key, featuring simple banjo/guitar/mandolin setups with a few odds and ends -- bouzouki, flutes, and percussion -- thrown in to keep things interesting. The performances on Fiddler's Green are well wrought but, perhaps because of the conservative nature of the project, a bit stolid. "Buffalo Skinners" proceeds at a steady pace for over five minutes, and O'Brien, despite his fine vocal, really doesn't bring anything new to this Western saga. This is far different than his radical reworking of "Little Sadie" on 2000's Real Time with Darrell Scott. Oddly, some of the liveliest tracks, "Train on the Island" and Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain," don't surface until the last third of the album. Fans will more than likely find Fiddler's Green enjoyable if not revelatory, while skeptics will wonder if O'Brien should've taken the best cuts from both releases and made one great album.
© Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. /TiVo
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Tim O'Brien, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Traditional, Composer
(C) 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Tim O'Brien, Composer, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Tim O'Brien, MainArtist - Pete Goble, Composer
(C) 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Tim O'Brien, Composer, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Tim O'Brien, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Traditional, Composer
(C) 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Tim O'Brien, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Traditional, Composer
(C) 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Tim O'Brien, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Traditional, Composer
(C) 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Tim O'Brien, Composer, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Tim O'Brien, Composer, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Tim O'Brien, MainArtist - Danny Dill, Composer - Marijohn Wilkin, Composer
(C) 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Tim O'Brien, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Traditional, Composer
(C) 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Gordon Lightfoot, ComposerLyricist - Tim O'Brien, MainArtist
(C) 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Album review
In the early fall of 2005, Tim O'Brien simultaneously released two albums, Cornbread Nation and Fiddler's Green, on Sugar Hill. And while both dig deep into the fabric of American roots music, the albums also revealed O'Brien's split musical personality, a split that dates back to his work with Hot Rize/Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers during the 1980s. Fiddler's Green gives birth to the more conservative side of his neo-traditional core while still allowing him to delve into Celtic and Appalachian folk, bluegrass, and old-timey. Much of the material here, as on Cornbread Nation, is traditional, featuring well-worn icons like "Pretty Fair Maid in the Garden" and "Buffalo Skinners." As one might guess, the arrangements are fairly low-key, featuring simple banjo/guitar/mandolin setups with a few odds and ends -- bouzouki, flutes, and percussion -- thrown in to keep things interesting. The performances on Fiddler's Green are well wrought but, perhaps because of the conservative nature of the project, a bit stolid. "Buffalo Skinners" proceeds at a steady pace for over five minutes, and O'Brien, despite his fine vocal, really doesn't bring anything new to this Western saga. This is far different than his radical reworking of "Little Sadie" on 2000's Real Time with Darrell Scott. Oddly, some of the liveliest tracks, "Train on the Island" and Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain," don't surface until the last third of the album. Fans will more than likely find Fiddler's Green enjoyable if not revelatory, while skeptics will wonder if O'Brien should've taken the best cuts from both releases and made one great album.
© Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:47:34
- Main artists: Tim O'Brien
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Sugar Hill Records
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Country
© 2005 Howdy Skies Records ℗ 2005 Howdy Skies Records
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