A mixture 1/2cup Beatles, 1/8cup Dylan, 1/8cup Jackson Browne, five tablespoons of Bruce Cockburn, a sprinkle of Robyn Hitchcock, baked in a pan greased with Neil Young set at U2.

11 MP3 Songs
POP: Beatles-pop, ROCK: Folk Rock



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A NEW LIFE is a pretty damn good CD.





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Michael Caufield's A NEW LIFE is not a genre hybrid mishmash, it is the introduction of a new artist. The original atmosphere of the CD displays the strength that allowed singer songwriters like Jackson Browne and Traci Chapman to 'arrive' with their first release. The overall sound is more ambitious and full than that of many acoustic guitar-based songwriters. The in-the-studio multi-instrumentalism of Michael combines with only a drummer (a really good drummer) to produce an impressive array of sounds. Note the way the floating trumpets coalesce at the end of "Let me in" or the way the electric guitar solo crushingly closes "Out on the edge" or the way the Rubber Soul-like bass line orders "Living in a shoe" or the way the piano delicately complements "Beneath" -- the musical interplay is tightly wound yet moves across a varied universe. Michael Caufield will soon be a familiar constellation, A NEW LIFE will be its brightest star.