Bob Schneider - I'm Good Now
CD
Performer
 
Title
 
I'm Good Now
UPC
 
01570797622
Genre
 
Rock & Pop
Released
 
04/13/2004
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Come With Me Tonight
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Medicine
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Long Way to Get, A
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Way Life Is Supposed to Be, The
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I'm Good Now
6
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God Is My Friend
7
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C'mon Baby
8
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Bridge Builders, The
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Capn Kirk
10
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Gold in the Sunset
11
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Piggyback
12
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Getting Better
13
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[Untitled Hidden Track] - (hidden track)
Notes / Reviews

Personnel includes: Bob Schneider, Bill Harvey (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, percussion, programming); Bruce Hughes (vocals, bass); Derek Morris (piano); Rafael Gayol (drums, percussion).
Personnel: Bob Schneider (vocals, guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion, programming); Billy Harvey (vocals, guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion, programming); Bruce Hughes (vocals); Dave McNair, Adam "Slowpoke" Temple (guitar); Tracy Seeger, Leigh Mahoney (violin); Ames Asbell (viola); Sara Nelson, Danny Levin (cello); Kevin Lovejoy (organ); David Boyle (keyboards); Rafael Gayol (drums, percussion); Michael Longoria (drums).
Audio Mixer: Dave McNair.
Recording information: Hit Shack; Jarvis Studio; Max Crace Studio; Music Lane; The Bee Hive.
I'm Good Now is quite varied, echoing several singer/songwriter traditions. You can hear traces of Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, and Van Morrison here and there, though laced with a sort of American heartland rock & roll spirit not found too abundantly in any of those figures, other than possibly Springsteen. In fact, sometimes there's a sense that you might be listening to a compilation album, the record moving from fairly slick, earnest mainstream rock and more anthemic, alternative-minded stuff to near-folk ("A Long Way to Get"), country-laced outlaw narrative (the title track), crunchy hard rock ("C'mon Baby"), studly funk humor ("Capn Kirk"), and white boy hip-hop-tinged rock ("Getting Better"). The songs are pretty verbose, without conveying much specific other than the sense of a guy rolling with the punches, one day at a time, sometimes with an observational sense of humor that falls short of knee-slapping. What this lacks, other than a set identity, is much of an individual voice, drawing extensively on tested rock singer/songwriter forms without adding much of note to them. The only big surprise on the record is when an unidentified ballad plays as a hidden track after a minute or so of silence following "Getting Better," the last song listed on the sleeve. ~ Richie Unterberger

Details
Performers
 
Producer
 
Engineer
 
Label
 
Vanguard Records (USA)
Catalog #
 
79762
SPAR Code
 
n/a
Year of Original Release
 
2004
Mono/Stereo
 
Stereo
Studio/Live Performance
 
Studio
Distributor
 
Welk
# of Discs
 
1