The Poet Game

The Poet Game
Studio album by Greg Brown
Released 1994
Genre Folk
Length 53:12
Label Red House
Producer Bo Ramsey and Greg Brown
Greg Brown chronology
Bathtub Blues
(1993)		 The Poet Game
(1994)		 The Live One
(1995)

The Poet Game is an album by American folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown, released in 1994.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau [2]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Richard Meyer wrote of the album "Greg Brown's latest release is somber and streetwise with more political undertones than his previous CDs... Production is simple and in a few cases one would have liked to hear a bit more thought given to the instrumental arrangement, but still this is a fine stripped-to-the-bone songwriter album by one of the premiere contemporary writers."[1] Music critic Robert Christgau gave the album a "Neither" rating.[2]

Track listing

All songs by Greg Brown.

  1. "Brand New '64 Dodge" – 3:49
  2. "Boomtown" – 3:17
  3. "Poet Game" – 5:30
  4. "Ballingall Hotel" – 5:42
  5. "One Wong Turn" – 3:46
  6. "Jesus and Elvis" – 3:39
  7. "Sadness" – 5:50
  8. "Lately" – 4:27
  9. "Lord, I Have Made You a Place in My Heart" – 4:17
  10. "My New Book" – 6:01
  11. "Driftless" – 3:06
  12. "Here in the Going Going Gone" – 3:48

Personnel

Production

References

  1. 1 2 Meyers, Richard. "The Poet Game > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  2. 1 2 Christgau, Robert. "The Poet Game > Review". Robert Christgau. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
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