Dream Café

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Dream Café
Studio album by Greg Brown
Released 1992
Genre Folk
Length 50:42
Label Red House
Producer Bo Ramsey
Greg Brown chronology

Down in There
(1990)		 Dream Café
(1992)		 Friend of Mine
(1993)

Dream Café is an album by American folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown, released in 1992.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Entertainment Weekly B[2]

Music critic David Freedlander praised the release in his Allmusic review, writing Brown "Brown produces an album as light and refreshing as a summer breeze. Although it is plagued by the inconsistency which characterizes most of his studio work, some of his most heartfelt and enduring songs can be found on this album..."[1] Bill Wyman of Entertainment Weekly wrote "... on Dream Café he's more varied musically — he'll do a grinding blues and even flirt with jazz. Also, he wields simpler but more forceful melodies, and is still very capable of pulling off a marvelous portrait, as in the moving Spring Wind."[2]

Track listing

All songs by Greg Brown.

  1. "Just by Myself" – 4:45
  2. "Sleeper" – 4:28
  3. "I Don't Know That Guy" – 4:51
  4. "So Hard" – 2:38
  5. "You Can Watch Me" – 3:37
  6. "Dream Cafe" – 5:55
  7. "You Drive Me Crazy" – 4:56
  8. "Spring Wind" – 4:32
  9. "Nice When it Rains" – 3:10
  10. "Laughing River" – 4:16
  11. "No Place Away" – 4:10
  12. "I Don't Want to Be the One" – 3:24

Personnel

  • Greg Brown – vocals, guitar, harmonica
  • Bo Ramsey – guitar
  • Tim Sparks – requinto
  • Robin Adnan Anders – percussion, tabla, tupan, dourbakee
  • Gordon Johnson – bass
  • Dan Lund – guitar
  • Kate McKenzie – background vocals
  • Willie Murphy – piano, organ

Production

  • Produced by Bo Ramsey
  • Engineered by Tom Tucker
  • Mixed by Bob Feldman

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Freedlander, David. "Dream Cafe > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved December 6, 2010. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wyman, Bill (June 1992). "Review: Dream Cafe". Entertainment Weekly. 
Greg Brown
Studio albums
Live albums
Collaborations
Compilations
  • If I Had Known: Essential Recordings, 1980-96
  • Dream City: Essential Recordings, 1997–2006
Tribute albums
  • Songs of Greg Brown
  • Going Driftless: An Artist's Tribute to Greg Brown
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