My Own House / You Should See the Rest of the Band (Remastered)

My Own House / You Should See the Rest of the Band (Remastered)

After recording two albums of unruly funk with the David Bromberg Band, the mercurial Bromberg hit the reset button with 1978’s aptly titled My Own House. Featuring only acoustic guitar, banjo, fiddle, and Bromberg’s warped and vulnerable voice, the album is a handsome vision of traditional folk music that doesn’t feel traditional at all. Maybe that’s because he brings the same attitude of tenderness and patience to covers of Phil Spector’s “To Know Him Is to Love Him” and Ray Charles’ “Georgia on My Mind” as he does the 17th-century Celtic instrumental “Sheebeg and Sheemore.” As a bonus, this edition includes Bromberg’s next album, You Should See the Rest of the Band, which was recorded live in concert during the spring of 1979. Though his band is again on hand to deliver the steam-powered R&B of “Helpless Blues” and “Sharon,” Bromberg's at his most convincing when he’s laying back rather than leaning forward, as on “Solid Gone.” The song that bridges the two albums is “The Lower Left Hand Corner of the Night,” a quietly pulsing solo instrumental that's 4 a.m. melancholy incarnate.

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