Play 90 second soundbite of 'Down To The Well' @ 'CD quality'
two determined forces, two fluid entities, two focussed 'beings' - the two seamlessly become one, one gently persuasive but flexible force, one forceful power - Eric Brace & Peter Cooper sound as if they were born to play together and 'You Don't Have To Like Them Both' is a blissfully easy work that sits tantalisingly astride simple country music whilst retaining a distinctly folkish underbelly, dabbling with shanty and having the occasional excursion into light-rock.
'You Don't Have To Like Them Both' is a charming and wonderfully chilled affair; it seems to focus around a somewhat lazy country sound that borrows its vibe from a refreshing cocktail of country styles from across the years. This aint frilly shirts/lacy skirts, boots and hats, yahoo country, this is down-home, restless country that most will be able to associate with through the slickly polished but catchy and likeable vibe that Brace & Cooper generate. Gently lilting rather than line-dancingly frivolous then, Brace & Cooper take the ezy country road to make 'You Don't Have To Like Them Both' accessible to a wide-ranging audience; you don't have to be a real hardened country-ite to get this one - you just have to appreciate good music and great musicianship! Featuring a number of re-modelled 'standards' as well as some Brace/Cooper originals, 'You Don't Have To Like Them Both' by Eric Brace & Peter Cooper offers great variety and fantastic entertainment for the discerning country-head and the unconverted country-virgin alike!
Brace & Cooper make subtle country music that's effortless and graceful yet invigorating and intoxicating - kinda 'timeless', kinda universal country music actually; Country music that seems to owe no allegiance to any particular strain of the art-form but calls on many of the varied nuances to gently shape the sound without totally relying on any single tradition. Nashville goes 'World' if you will!
'You Don't Have To Like Them Both' by Eric Brace & Peter Cooper is a simply stunning and seamless melding of multiple country influences into one amazingly elegant and beautifully poised work. 'You Don't Have To Like Them Both' by Eric Brace & Peter Cooper is a wonderfully chirpy works that's just so restful yet somehow invigorating - beautifully assembled and stunningly executed it's damn fine respite from some of the more obvious but less rewarding musical ventures out there!! Really beautiful stuff this!!
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