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| | Amazon.com: American Jukebox Fables: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Not all of Ellis Paul's first album in three years offers such an aural adventure, but the opening track, "Blacktop Train," combines propulsive syncopation, synthesized punctuation, and an ethereal female vocal that take the music far from folk convention, while "Kiss the Sun (A Song for Pat Tillman)" sets acoustic guitar to a digital pulse. |
 | | In the centerpiece that passes for a title track, the veteran New England troubadour asks for a jukebox instead of a headstone on his grave, evoking a litany of inspirations that extend from Hank Williams and George Jones to Marvin Gaye and Joni Mitchell. |
 | | On American Jukebox Fables, his first solo CD since 2002's The Speed of Trees, Paul expands his sonic palette still further, adding contemporary flourishes to his signature mix of folk storytelling, beat poetry, and pop songcraft. |
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