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SONGS WITH A 30 YEAR GUARANTEE!
If you trust Bob and want him to get the full price of the CDs, just send him an e-mail and he'll hook you up -- he accepts paypal, personal checks, money orders, and cash. Or, buy them online today with your credit card at CD Baby. Either way, you get the CDs for just $15 each.
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Bob Frank and John Murry, two Southern ex-pats (the former hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, and Murry being from Tupelo, Mississippi) living in the San Francisco Bay Area and separated by nearly a forty year age difference, have created a more-than-worthy follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2006 release, "World Without End". That release was a gruesome collection of true murder ballads, co-written by Frank and Murry and hailed by critics worldwide as a both timeless and timely meditation on death, destruction, and American violence. Perhaps, then, it follows naturally (or at least “naturally” according to Frank and Murry) that their newest record, "Brinkley, Ark. and Other Assorted Love Songs", though very much a departure aesthetically, focuses just as heavily on loss; this time, not the loss of life but of lost love and of longing.
The stories are more personal and death's antithesis, love, is the focal point. Dubbed "redneck soul" by Frank, Murry, and their long-time producer Tim Mooney, the album is filled with Memphis horns, Muscle Shoals rhythms, Mississippi gospel organ, and fiery Southern Rock-influenced guitar work that encapsulates the strong and emotionally honest songwriting of Frank and Murry.
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One of Bob’s songs, “Red Neck, Blue Collar” found its way onto the Memphis International album debut of his old friend Jim Dickinson a/k/a James Luther Dickinson who had recorded his music previously during the course of his own sporadic career as a recording artist. This planted the seed of the idea with the label to release a full album of Bob Frank songs by Bob Frank.
As it happens, Red Neck, Blue Collar is the title song of Bob’s album, out February 19th from Memphis International. The songs, all in the folk tradition, reflect economic disparity and class struggle, Bob’s observations on religion, patriotism and what might happen when you meet a wine-o in a Laundromat. These are straight up folks songs that show that Bob’s songwriting gifts, melodic sense and homespun vocal chops are still very much intact after all this time.
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At first glance "World Without End," a new CD release by Bob Frank and John Murry, appears to be a Halloween release. You can take my word, it's too damned scary for any of that. This ain't for kids. It's a musical celebration of death, violence and mayhem that's a trick and a treat straight from the gates of Hell – like nothing that's ever come before it – and has nothing to do with rubber masks and evening porch candy, folks. This is genuine skin crawling material that harkens back to another era – and a dark epic it is. It's vile, musty stuff sung from the crypt by victims of lynchings, stake burnings and suicides that even big kids, if they're fragile of spirit, ought not be listening to unsupervised. Until Quentin Tarantino turns this sucker into a movie, you'll have to rely on your imagination. Except it's your own runaway imagination that puts it over the top. "World Without End" is humid and putrid, and has a trickle temperature of about 98.6 degrees. If it had a scratch & sniff sticker on the wrapper, the stench would ascend straight from the grave – in warm, bloody horror. A creative, totally original master work. Yours humbly... Hoover, The Lost Outlaw.
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Ride the Restless Wind is Bob's latest. If you live anywhere near Reidsville, North Carolina, you can buy this CD directly from Jesse Epperson. It will still only cost $15.00. He even has some of Bob’s other CD’s he can sell to you. Here’s Jesse’s contact info:
Email: jessee@vnet.net Phone: 336-427-6726
Address: 351 Kallam Mill Road, Madison, NC 27025
As always, you can also get this CD directly from Bob, just send him an e-mail and tell him what you want. Or you can get it from CD Baby with a credit card.
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Pledge of Allegiance is a solo album, just Bob and the guitar, some harp. Not too much. Strong story songs. Many themes, many scenes. “It’s got geography in it,” somebody said. It’s also got some spiritual threads running through it, as well as some social and political ones…. “And it’s not all just weird Bob Frank stories….”
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Keep on Burning is the one that was produced by Jim Dickinson and has two-thirds of the North Mississippi Allstars on it. It’s a collector’s item, and if you don’t buy it today, you’ll wish you had. In which case, just come back and buy it then. All Bob Frank songs have a thirty year guarantee on them.
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A Little Gest of Robin Hood is the one that college professors in England, Canada, and the U.S. are using in their classes on Medieval Literature and History. It is a modern performance in the ancient lineage of minstrels that sang about Robin Hood. This is the original. This is the one all the other ones came from. Remember “Jesse James”? This is the original “Jesse James.” If you care anything about outlaw ballads, you will love this CD. Bob guarantees it. Remember Waylon Jennings? This is the song he was always looking for.
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You can also use a credit card to purchase the Gest at the Robin Hood Shop in Sherwood Forest at Nottingham, England. If you run into any of his merry young men over there, tell 'em Bob said hello.
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