Shaun Paul Gordon
Grand Central Nowhere
Laser Bay 2 Music
spg@shaunpaulgordon.com
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An interesting disc that shows promises for future projects and yet leaves a great number of questions still on the table. He starts the disc off with a very swampy Mississippi hill blues number, “Breathin’ A Lie,” that has a great feel to it, and then goes to a more a non-descript song, “She Goes Down” that seems to loose some energy and the vocals slide back down in the mix. Followed by a very average and ordinary kind of country-rocker that looses more steam, and the mix is such that nothing leads the song on, not the vocals, not the guitar which is muddy, nor the band. The sound on the next few songs is quite muddy with very little capturing the ear until we get to an acoustic blue-grassy number that rises up and because it is acoustic and a completely different tempo perk some interest again in the
disc. So it goes on this disc, too many songs that don’t hold the ear of the listener, there were times when you don’t know whether you were listening to a radio station or you have a disc in.
Yet the songs when closely listened too are fairly good and interesting songs, however the mix is murky and dark with nothing riding to the surface. His singing voice is not strong enough to bring the lyrics up to grab the ear of the listener; he did compose all the songs on the disc. His guitar playing is good and based that and the songs there is promise for a more interesting disc the next time, and possibly an experienced hand as producer to bring the sound more in focus.