26-08-2012, 11:09
(This post was last modified: 26-08-2012, 11:39 by Music Head.)
online listen
damn I'm a hard sell
just misses the list
too laid back overall for me
guy slurs his lyrics really bad
clip was not quite a like
1.6 from me and a converted 2.0 from the pros at allmusic
from the album - Part One: The End
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcHQk3aPLnE
released August 21st. 2012
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Bio - from allmusic
Shreveport, Louisiana native Dylan LeBlanc spent his formative years surrounded by some of the region's finest
musicians (his father, singer/songwriter/guitarist James LeBlanc, is a longtime Muscle Shoals session player). Dylan
began writing his own songs at eleven, and by his late teens, had developed a soulful, bluesy voice and guitar style
that resonated with the sights and sounds of his musical youth. He released Paupers Field, his smoky, languid Townes
Van Zandt- and Fleet Foxes-inspired debut, on Rough Trade in 2010 at the ripe old age of nineteen, followed by the
likeminded Cast the Same Old Shadow in 2012.
Album Review - from allmusic
On 2010's Paupers Field, then 20-year-old Shreveport, Louisiana native Dylan LeBlanc presented a confident, if
slightly laconic, new voice that was based in the tradition of maverick singer/songwriters like Townes Van Zandt,
Neil Young, and Gram Parsons. Lush, less timid, and even more melancholy than Paupers Field, 2012's appropriately
titled Cast the Same Old Shadow feels like a proper second outing, building on the strengths of its predecessor
while maintaining its overall gloomy, gothic Americana vibe. LeBlanc's pained, doomed romanticism, best exemplified
by weepy cuts like "Part One: The End," "Where Are You Now," and "Lonesome Waltz," may be the "same old shadow" he's
referring to in the title, and it casts an awfully wide net over the proceedings, resulting in an ultra-slow-burn
listening experience that falls somewhere between the wretched rain-soaked beauty of Mickey Newbury and the hymn-
like sonic expansiveness of Richard Hawley. At its best, like on the aforementioned "Where Are You Now" and the
sprawling, instantly engaging "Brother," LeBlanc looks to high and lonesome country for inspiration, eking out his
own subgenre while respectfully adhering to the original's mournful simplicity, but Cast the Same Old Shadow
ultimately crumbles under the weight of its own despondency. LeBlanc's lonely, elastic voice, which can go from a
ragged, triumphant croon to a distant warble within a single phrase, feels like it's fighting against not only the
weight of the world, but the engineering booth as well, more often than not flailing away beneath the towering waves
of admittedly lovely but unyielding atmosphere, and coming up predictably spent.
Track Listing
1. Part One: The End
2. Innocent Spinner
3. Brother
4. Diamonds And Pearls
5. Where Are You Now
6. Chesapeake Lane
7. The Ties That Bind
8. Comfort Me
9. Cast The Same Old Shadow
10. Lonesome Waltz
damn I'm a hard sell
just misses the list
too laid back overall for me
guy slurs his lyrics really bad
clip was not quite a like
1.6 from me and a converted 2.0 from the pros at allmusic
from the album - Part One: The End
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcHQk3aPLnE
released August 21st. 2012
Bio - from allmusic
Shreveport, Louisiana native Dylan LeBlanc spent his formative years surrounded by some of the region's finest
musicians (his father, singer/songwriter/guitarist James LeBlanc, is a longtime Muscle Shoals session player). Dylan
began writing his own songs at eleven, and by his late teens, had developed a soulful, bluesy voice and guitar style
that resonated with the sights and sounds of his musical youth. He released Paupers Field, his smoky, languid Townes
Van Zandt- and Fleet Foxes-inspired debut, on Rough Trade in 2010 at the ripe old age of nineteen, followed by the
likeminded Cast the Same Old Shadow in 2012.
Album Review - from allmusic
On 2010's Paupers Field, then 20-year-old Shreveport, Louisiana native Dylan LeBlanc presented a confident, if
slightly laconic, new voice that was based in the tradition of maverick singer/songwriters like Townes Van Zandt,
Neil Young, and Gram Parsons. Lush, less timid, and even more melancholy than Paupers Field, 2012's appropriately
titled Cast the Same Old Shadow feels like a proper second outing, building on the strengths of its predecessor
while maintaining its overall gloomy, gothic Americana vibe. LeBlanc's pained, doomed romanticism, best exemplified
by weepy cuts like "Part One: The End," "Where Are You Now," and "Lonesome Waltz," may be the "same old shadow" he's
referring to in the title, and it casts an awfully wide net over the proceedings, resulting in an ultra-slow-burn
listening experience that falls somewhere between the wretched rain-soaked beauty of Mickey Newbury and the hymn-
like sonic expansiveness of Richard Hawley. At its best, like on the aforementioned "Where Are You Now" and the
sprawling, instantly engaging "Brother," LeBlanc looks to high and lonesome country for inspiration, eking out his
own subgenre while respectfully adhering to the original's mournful simplicity, but Cast the Same Old Shadow
ultimately crumbles under the weight of its own despondency. LeBlanc's lonely, elastic voice, which can go from a
ragged, triumphant croon to a distant warble within a single phrase, feels like it's fighting against not only the
weight of the world, but the engineering booth as well, more often than not flailing away beneath the towering waves
of admittedly lovely but unyielding atmosphere, and coming up predictably spent.
Track Listing
1. Part One: The End
2. Innocent Spinner
3. Brother
4. Diamonds And Pearls
5. Where Are You Now
6. Chesapeake Lane
7. The Ties That Bind
8. Comfort Me
9. Cast The Same Old Shadow
10. Lonesome Waltz
