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In listening to Paul Thorn's fourth album, and the direct follow-up to 2002's iconoclastic wonder Mission Temple Fire Works Stand, one cannot help but think that he's spent some time listening to other people's records as well. Are You With Me is a collection of self-penned songs about love; for, against, happy, sad, grief-stricken and bewildered. Nonetheless, it feels like a singer's record. In the laid-back, R&B-drenched grooves one can imagine Thorn listening to recordings as diverse as Lowell George's Thanks I'll Eat It Here, Frankie Miller's High Life, Willy Deville's Backstreets of Desire, Boz Scaggs' Some Change, and Allen Toussaint's From a Whisper to a Scream. It's not that Thorn's fine album sounds like these discs in the slightest, or that he actually referenced them, it's the feel that's similar. Those familiar with Thorn's rollicking blues-based approach to rhythm and blues will be surprised this time out because the Tupelo, Mississippi native's sound comes right from heart of Southern soul on this outing. The album feels like a suite, examining all the stages of love, from bliss to heartbreak, from acceptance to the willingness to try again. Horns, backing vocalists and funky basslines abound in tracks like "She Won't Cheat on Us," as do the shimmering snare and hand drums prompting languid syncopated guitars and a gritty, emotionally honest vocal on "I Want You to Love on Me." There's the dirty horns and B3 that frame "High," and the light, Caribbean-soul inflected R&B that slips and winds around the singer in "If I Can Get Over Her," and the post-midnight smoky groove where crooner and in-the-pocket six-strings pair on "That's a Lie" that preempts the summery afternoon shimmy of "I Don't Wanna Know." Everywhere the sound of Southern Soul permeates, and Thorn's sweet croon rises above and slips through his words. Thorn is the kind of wordsmith where humor, tragedy and emotional honesty entwine and intermingle -- check out the simmering deep soul of "If You Can't Love Me Forever." This album stands in sharp contrast to the barroom rowdiness of his earlier outings; if this record lacks the intensity that Mission Temple Fire Works Stand has, it's because it is supposed to. There is real vulnerability in Thorn's protagonists and the way he sings their truths; they're never wimps, they're merely hopeful or broken men trying to communicate from inside their experiences. Ultimately, Thorn shows once again he's a songwriter to be reckoned with, but this time out he proves in spades that he's a soul singer who can slip down into the murk and mess of human emotions with style and aplomb.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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Charles Rose, Trombone, Horn Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Doug Kahan, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Harvey Thompson, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Cindy Walker, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Hinds, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Vinnie Ciesielski, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - BILLY MADDOX, Composer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Thorn, Composer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Graham, Mixer, Engineer, Organ, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Palmer, Drums, Tambourine, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Britt, Guitar, Steel Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Marie Lewy, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Carla Russell, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Weylon Michael, Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Back Porch. ℗ 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc.
Doug Kahan, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bill Hinds, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - BILLY MADDOX, Composer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Thorn, Composer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Graham, Mixer, Engineer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Palmer, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Weylon Michael, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Stan Thorn, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Back Porch. ℗ 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc.
L. White, Composer - Charles Rose, Trombone, Horn Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Harvey Thompson, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Cindy Walker, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Hinds, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Vinnie Ciesielski, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - BILLY MADDOX, Composer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Thorn, Composer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Graham, Mixer, Engineer, Keyboards, Organ, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Palmer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Richard Dabbs, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bob Britt, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Marie Lewy, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Carla Russell, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Back Porch. ℗ 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc.
Doug Kahan, Fretless Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Hinds, Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - BILLY MADDOX, Mixer, Engineer, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Thorn, Composer, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Graham, Mixer, Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Palmer, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Stan Thorn, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Kit Thorn, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Mitchell Maddox, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Back Porch. ℗ 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc.
Charles Rose, Trombone, Horn Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Doug Kahan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Harvey Thompson, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Cindy Walker, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Hinds, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Vinnie Ciesielski, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - BILLY MADDOX, Composer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Thorn, Composer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Graham, Mixer, Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Palmer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Marie Lewy, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Carla Russell, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Stan Thorn, Organ, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Back Porch. ℗ 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc.
Doug Kahan, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bill Hinds, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - BILLY MADDOX, Composer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Thorn, Composer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Graham, Mixer, Engineer, Organ, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jeffrey Perkins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - J. Flowers, Composer
(C) 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Back Porch. ℗ 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc.
C. Cannon, Composer - Doug Kahan, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bill Hinds, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - BILLY MADDOX, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Thorn, Composer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Graham, Mixer, Engineer, Organ, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Palmer, Tambourine, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Britt, Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jeffrey Perkins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Back Porch. ℗ 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc.
Bill Hinds, Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - BILLY MADDOX, Composer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Thorn, Composer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Graham, Mixer, Engineer, Organ, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Palmer, Drums, Tambourine, AssociatedPerformer - Richard Dabbs, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bob Britt, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Back Porch. ℗ 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc.
Doug Kahan, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Cindy Walker, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Hinds, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - BILLY MADDOX, Composer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Thorn, Composer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Graham, Mixer, Engineer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Palmer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Marie Lewy, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Carla Russell, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Stan Thorn, Organ, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Back Porch. ℗ 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc.
Doug Kahan, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bill Hinds, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - BILLY MADDOX, Composer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Thorn, Composer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Graham, Mixer, Engineer, Organ, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Palmer, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Britt, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Back Porch. ℗ 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc.
Doug Kahan, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Cindy Walker, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Hinds, Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - BILLY MADDOX, Composer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - B. Lynch, Composer - Paul Thorn, Composer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Graham, Mixer, Engineer, Guitar, Keyboards, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Palmer, Tambourine, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Britt, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Marie Lewy, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Carla Russell, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Jeffrey Perkins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Back Porch. ℗ 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc.
Doug Kahan, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Bill Hinds, Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - BILLY MADDOX, Composer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Thorn, Composer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Graham, Mixer, Engineer, Organ, Piano, Strings, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Palmer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Britt, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Back Porch. ℗ 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
In listening to Paul Thorn's fourth album, and the direct follow-up to 2002's iconoclastic wonder Mission Temple Fire Works Stand, one cannot help but think that he's spent some time listening to other people's records as well. Are You With Me is a collection of self-penned songs about love; for, against, happy, sad, grief-stricken and bewildered. Nonetheless, it feels like a singer's record. In the laid-back, R&B-drenched grooves one can imagine Thorn listening to recordings as diverse as Lowell George's Thanks I'll Eat It Here, Frankie Miller's High Life, Willy Deville's Backstreets of Desire, Boz Scaggs' Some Change, and Allen Toussaint's From a Whisper to a Scream. It's not that Thorn's fine album sounds like these discs in the slightest, or that he actually referenced them, it's the feel that's similar. Those familiar with Thorn's rollicking blues-based approach to rhythm and blues will be surprised this time out because the Tupelo, Mississippi native's sound comes right from heart of Southern soul on this outing. The album feels like a suite, examining all the stages of love, from bliss to heartbreak, from acceptance to the willingness to try again. Horns, backing vocalists and funky basslines abound in tracks like "She Won't Cheat on Us," as do the shimmering snare and hand drums prompting languid syncopated guitars and a gritty, emotionally honest vocal on "I Want You to Love on Me." There's the dirty horns and B3 that frame "High," and the light, Caribbean-soul inflected R&B that slips and winds around the singer in "If I Can Get Over Her," and the post-midnight smoky groove where crooner and in-the-pocket six-strings pair on "That's a Lie" that preempts the summery afternoon shimmy of "I Don't Wanna Know." Everywhere the sound of Southern Soul permeates, and Thorn's sweet croon rises above and slips through his words. Thorn is the kind of wordsmith where humor, tragedy and emotional honesty entwine and intermingle -- check out the simmering deep soul of "If You Can't Love Me Forever." This album stands in sharp contrast to the barroom rowdiness of his earlier outings; if this record lacks the intensity that Mission Temple Fire Works Stand has, it's because it is supposed to. There is real vulnerability in Thorn's protagonists and the way he sings their truths; they're never wimps, they're merely hopeful or broken men trying to communicate from inside their experiences. Ultimately, Thorn shows once again he's a songwriter to be reckoned with, but this time out he proves in spades that he's a soul singer who can slip down into the murk and mess of human emotions with style and aplomb.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:45:25
- Main artists: Paul Thorn
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Backporch
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc. ℗ 2004 Perpetual Obscurity Records, Inc.
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