Dream Café

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Dream Café is an album by American folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown, released in 1992. It was produced by Bo Ramsey. It is a Red House release.

Dream Café
Studio album by
Released1992
GenreFolk
Length50:42
LabelRed House
ProducerBo Ramsey
Greg Brown chronology
Down in There
(1990)
Dream Café
(1992)
Friend of Mine
(1993)

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic     [1]
Entertainment WeeklyB[2]

Music critic David Freedlander praised the release in his Allmusic review, writing Brown "Brown produces an album as light and refreshing as a summer breeze. Although it is plagued by the inconsistency which characterizes most of his studio work, some of his most heartfelt and enduring songs can be found on this album..."[1] Bill Wyman of Entertainment Weekly wrote "... on Dream Café he's more varied musically — he'll do a grinding blues and even flirt with jazz. Also, he wields simpler but more forceful melodies, and is still very capable of pulling off a marvelous portrait, as in the moving Spring Wind."[2]

Track listing

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All songs by Greg Brown.

  1. "Just by Myself" – 4:45
  2. "Sleeper" – 4:28
  3. "I Don't Know That Guy" – 4:51
  4. "So Hard" – 2:38
  5. "You Can Watch Me" – 3:37
  6. "Dream Cafe" – 5:55
  7. "You Drive Me Crazy" – 4:56
  8. "Spring Wind" – 4:32
  9. "Nice When it Rains" – 3:10
  10. "Laughing River" – 4:16
  11. "No Place Away" – 4:10
  12. "I Don't Want to Be the One" – 3:24

Personnel

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  • Greg Brown – vocals, guitar, harmonica
  • Bo Ramsey – guitar
  • Tim Sparks – requinto
  • Robin Adnan Anders – percussion, tabla, tupan, dourbakee
  • Gordon Johnson – bass
  • Dan Lund – guitar
  • Kate McKenzie – background vocals
  • Willie Murphy – piano, organ

Production

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  • Produced by Bo Ramsey
  • Engineered by Tom Tucker
  • Mixed by Bob Feldman

References

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  1. ^ a b Freedlander, David. "Dream Cafe > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Wyman, Bill (June 1992). "Review: Dream Cafe". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on April 21, 2009.
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