The reviews of "Time Goes Rushing By" are coming in, and they're very good, including a strong endorsement from legendary Nashville insider Bill Littleton. Here are three short reviews, followed by a short description of Floor Creak. Please contact [+]The reviews of "Time Goes Rushing By" are coming in, and they're very good, including a strong endorsement from legendary Nashville insider Bill Littleton. Here are three short reviews, followed by a short description of Floor Creak. Please contact Dave Shiflett at DShifl@aol.com with any comments or questions. Thanks.
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By Bill Littleton; September 3, 2002
Floor Creak Time Goes Rushing By; Truthface Recordings -- Well, the folks who are overwhelmed with the pop/rock syndrome of the past decade can consider this album a harbinger of better days. Those who need a name to call everything might have a problem, but, when the music is this good, that's not a bad problem to have. We can safely call it "acoustic music" (even with the presence at times of an electric guitar, played with a very acoustic attitude), while the considerable country, jazz, and folk influences shift and sashay amongst each other in a celebration of playing music from the heart. Floor Creak is guitarist/songwriter Dave Shiflett, bassist (mostly on upright) Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette, and vocalist Kathie Thomas. Five guest performers are used sparingly throughout, but the sense of guitar, bass, and voice never gets bogged down in "clever things we can do with multiple tracking." It's all good, but moments of splendor lie in "Voice Of The Night," "Birmingham," and "You Were Always That Way."
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Here's one by Aaron Bragg from The Local Planet, Spokane, WA
FLOOR CREAK
Time Goes Rushing By
Truthface
It's tempting, considering the timing of the release of Time Goes Rushing By, to dismiss the album as yet another attempt to capitalize on the current craze over all things hillbilly. After all, the soundtrack from O Brother, Where Art Thou?, in addition to winning the Grammy for Album of the Year, has sold somewhere in the neighborhood of six million copies. Given that the Silent Majority has gone from voting Republican to buying Bluegrass, who wouldn't want to grab a cousin or two and bang out one more version of "Wildwood Flower" or "Orange Blossom Special?"
But dismiss Floor Creak at your peril, for this is a very talented trio: singer Kathie Thomas; Dave Shiflett, guitarist and songwriter; and Joe "Joebass" DeJarnette on, naturally, bass
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