Americana at its best

An ample degree of relaxation and melancholy features his recordings, even there yet where, as in geiselt American Lie, the political circumstances of the late Bush era. Stoll Vaughan belongs to this generation of transition, not so badly gifted, those who grew up musically with Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp in luggage - and some with the Blues. His contemporaries and kindred spirits bear such names as Kevin Gordon, Kevin Montgomery, Greg Trooper undundund ... all names which you have to admit that they have actually done quite well, not great, but pretty good. Only really done so that you could go from shoot to shoot carelessly into the studio, it has none of whom. Most hoof, operate Pickup fundraising or have idle machinery success somehow switched off completely - and every now and then they sell a piece of music as Downloadst. So just also Stoll Vaughan.

2004 at the beginning of his career he produced in LA Mike Wanchic, which contributes the Dobro and B3. Wanchic is the main job of the guitarist John ex-Cougar, what he did not go any further incorporated. On the contrary, he allows Vaughan ample individual space to implement what it is matter: excellent singer-songwriter roots rock of largely muted variety, usually in minor mode but also with strong instrumental parts, like the electric guitar from Carl Broemel or just Wanchic themselves. The songs are compelling songwriter crafts that Vaughan's voice, something dragged his phrasing, which provides at least for originality and characteristics. But veiled this way of describing the quality of what can be heard there, because that's a whole coherent Americana music land which is described there, just in dark images, in black silhouettes against mild brown background - as shown in the Cover , But the cover also shows an artist in a suit vest over .... with cowboy boots. Maybe that describes the ongoing failure of Vaughan, maybe he was not radical enough, as all the mentioned his generation, perhaps there were too many spiritual fathers to take a too extensive squinting out there to many parties rather ....

But this - the recording Hold On Thru Sleep & Dreams - is certainly one thing that, placed in the right mood, calm and melancholic well accompanied in attitude and mood, like forty minutes you never let you down, something like a brother, a good friend - also in its reverberation Americana at its best.