Red Idle Rejects Room With A View (CD)

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(Colt Records) 10 tracks (39:56) The Red Idle Rejects' new album 'Room With View' is a... more

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Red Idle Rejects: Room With A View (CD)

(Colt Records) 10 tracks (39:56)

The Red Idle Rejects' new album 'Room With View' is a celebration of family, masterminded by Steve Bowling who is joined by his two daughters.

Five of the new songs are written by Steve Bowling who is kind of an anchor for the band.
The music embraces Americana, country, folk and rock.

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Interpret: Red Idle Rejects
Album titlle: Room With A View (CD)
Genre Country
Artikelart CD
Label SELF
EAN: 0659696472822
weight in Kg 0.1

Red Idle Rejects - Room With A View (CD) CD 1
01	The Drone	Red Idle Rejects
02	X Marks The Spot	Red Idle Rejects
03	Last Measure Of Hope	Red Idle Rejects
04	Breathe In	Red Idle Rejects
05	Pioneers Of Clay Country	Red Idle Rejects
06	Fading Photograph	Red Idle Rejects
07	Song For Florence	Red Idle Rejects
08	Only One Working	Red Idle Rejects
09	Sandcastles	Red Idle Rejects
10	Room With A View	Red Idle Rejects

Red Idle Rejects Country Music Magazine Review Steve Bowling is the singer and main... more

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"Red Idle Rejects"

Red Idle Rejects

Country Music Magazine Review

Steve Bowling is the singer and main songwriter of the Red Idle Rejects, who were just called, Red Idle. The name was changed after the band members initially rejected the songs on the new CD, as “too country”. They are not. Can a song be, too country? Probably not, for readers of this magazine. The press release for the disc, calls it a concept album, telling the tale of, “an Appalachian who moves to the city only to discover heartache, but ultimate triumph, found therein”. All ten songs do stand on their own as well.

First song, Mean Dry County, which is also a single, has a country/rock “n” roll feel, and Steve Bowling really “attacks” the tune with lots of passion. The track, Ruthie, is a stunner: a dark bluesy country song with a timeless feel. It’s a foot-tapping delight featuring a nagging guitar that gets in your head, and let’s not forget the fiddle. Wonderful!

The band may have got nervous about the CD’s final three songs, all of which are pure, real country. Where The Lonely Reside has a classic crying-in-your-beer feel, Simple Blue sounds like Commander Cody at his most country, and A Mountain track, with added banjo. The album does have one rock song, Divorce,sounds a little like The Jefferson Airplane with a punk edge. This is one of the better rock tracks of recent years. The song also throws up a dilemma for The Red Idle Rejects. Clearly they can do

quality rock and country, but which way should they go? The more traditional country songs here are so strong, that the country road seems the one the band need to be on.

Steve Bowling is a real find, a very high quality songwriter, with a strong voice, a little over-the-top at times, but it works. Red Idle have performed a fair number of covers, including a very reasonable version of Fleetwood Mac’s Black Magic Woman, but any band who has a songwriter of Steve Bowling’s talent should be performing, all or mainly original songs. That way the band will create their own identity. This seems to be the way forward. The Red Idle Rejects have clearly got something, it would be a great pity if they lost it.

Country Music People, November, 2014

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