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Music Matters
This CD’s packaging sets new standards in modest. Although it is nicely done, it is just wrapped in a few layers of heavy paper. It does not take long to realize that the complete package is the music itself.
These are songs that grab you with their narrative, enthrall you with the rhythm of the words and melodies, and hold you with their images and heart. Darryl Purpose’s guitar playing is dazzling and intricate, yet organic to the songs, creating moods and accenting the lyrics.
As complete as Purpose’s talent is, Daryl S finds a musical space with her fiddle that seems to rise from the overtones of the guitar and soar with the emotions of the lyrics. As if that wasn’t all, that IS ALL! This is basically one take magic, beautifully recorded and mixed.
The songs run thematically from reflective to redemptive autobiography, to gentle observations of other people. “Last Great Kiss Of The 20th Century” and “What Was I Thinking” mark Purpose as a wide-eyed romantic, while “Dangerous Game” (with its delightfully dangerous guitar slides!) and the lump in the throat “You Must Come Home For Christmas” define the emotional depths that a romantic rises from.
“Mr. Schwinn,” the story of a lonely old man in a bike shop, is a song that you immediately love like a Harry Chapin song. His covers of Anne Weiss’s wise “Cherokee,” and Kevin Faherty’s hilarious “Singer Songwriter Heaven,” fit so perfectly with the other songs that it is a surprise to find that he did not write them. Make room for this thin little package on your top shelf of singer-songwriters! —Michael Devlin
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