In a time when most pop music is, metaphorically speaking, delivered with the speed and depth of e-mail, then Song, the third album from Lullaby For The Working Class, is like a letter that took a long slow journey from America's heartland to your door. And it's stuffed with stories, pictures, poems, reveries and memories, along with the dust, scent and sounds of the rooms in which it was crafted. Lullaby's music is always evolving and on Song they have found their own signature sound. They have broadened ...   [ read more ]

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Slowly crafted between 1994 and 1996, the debut album by Lullaby for the Working Class could be easily categorized along with the {alt-country} of Palace and Wilco that developed around the same time. And while the Nebraskan foursome certainly base their sound in the same acoustic Americana of these other bands, their extensive use of classical arrangements and chamber instruments gives Blanket Warm a gilded edge over its peers. The hollow strumming on Good Morning builds to a crescendo with drums and vio...   [ read more ]

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