Cam Penner

The sheer simplicity of the music on this album is breathtaking.
The stories that he tells and the understated manner that he tells them in adds to it all and creates a close and personal work that reminds me of the material that Steve Earle made at his peak and that Arlo Guthrie wished he could have written.
He has played alongside the greats like Glen Campbell and Lyle Lovatt and deserves to be mentioned in the same breath – if he had only played the music business games he could be an Americana superstar.

Penner writes about all those things that you think about in another no-name Motel in a town you hardly saw and while the adrenaline of the night’s gig is still buzzing in your veins – lost loves, people you haven’t seen in years, the reasons why you left home and took to the road, the weariness that suddenly hits you like a fist. But he doesn’t sound maudlin or depressed; these are all parts of life and he is just telling the tales.
His guitar is pure and the other musicians that play around him are kept far enough back in the mix that they are part of the music but you have his voice and his lyrics as a focus.

Another great album by an under-rated and little known Canadian – check it out and check him out in May & June.
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