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Track Listing
1. It's Alright
2. Show Me
3. So Glad
4. Listen
5. Cause It's Time
6. Long Time to Wait
7. Perfect World
8. Cinnamon Girl
9. Run
10. What a Time For Love
11. True Reflections
Album Notes
Personnel: Boyd Tinsley (vocals, violin); Benjy King (acoustic guitar, Wurlitzer piano, organ, percussion); Espen Noreger (guitar, Fender Rhodes piano, drums); Corey Harris (guitar, lap steel guitar, background vocals); Doyle Bramhall II (guitar, background vocals); Haavard Hana, Keith Mack, Chris Bruce, Steve Johnson (guitar); Greg Leisz (lap steel guitar); Dave Palmer (melodica, Wurlitzer piano, organ); Patrick Warren (Wurlitzer piano, organ, chamberlain, keyboards); David Pitch (bass, arco bass); Jeff Allen (bass); J.J. Johnson (drums, percussion); Jonathan Keidan (percussion); Boots Ottestad, Toshi Reagon, Lisa German) (background vocals); The Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
Producers: Craig Street, Espen Noreger, Haavard Hana.
Recorded at Sunset Sound Factory, Hollywood, California; Allaire, Shokan, New York; Mission Sound, Brooklyn, New York; Bang Music, New York, New York; Studio Litho, Seattle, Washington.
Boyd Tinsley's got a lot of surprises up his sleeve on this, his first solo album. As the violinist in the Dave Matthews Band, capable of reeling of hot solos at a moment's notice, you might think his own outing would be full of jazzy instrumentals that push the world/fusion side of the DMB sound. Instead, TRUE REFLECTIONS is a rootsy singer-songwriter record dripping with organic Americana, suggesting a collision between Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, and a mellower Hootie & the Blowfish.
Not only is the jazzier aspect of things completely eschewed, Tinsley doesn't even feature his violin very much. Instead, the focus is squarely on his singing and songwriting, whose roots are revealed in a scaled-down, acoustic-based cover of Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl." Although Mr. Matthews himself does make a guest appearance, adding his voice to the closing title track, even that cut doesn't bear his stamp so much as that of Tinsley's resolutely earthy singer-songwriter vibe.
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