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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe album kicks off with \u201cOne More Stranger In The Night\u201d a mellow tune with an incredible horn arrangement that suits Hoe\u2019s gravely yet soothing voice. The lyrics are just like the singer himself, wise with a full life of adventure \u201cYou might say I\u2019ve been affected by the fact I\u2019ve been rejected, you might say, you might say I\u2019ve got the stars in my eyes, but on closer observation you might note that on occasion a grown make takes the time to cry.\u201d Track two is titles the \u201cBartenders Lament\u201d and harkens back to old relationships and the joy and looniness of being a touring musician. The back line is tight and gives a rollicking vision to another great song that slides so well into whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEye of a Dream\u201d the title track reminds one of the incredible Los Lobos and the mix is pristine on this fun tune.\u00a0 You can almost envision hearing this song at a ramshackle bar in West Texas while your friends all tap their foot and toast around you. \u00a0 The sing-along finale is super catchy and it sounds like the band had a great time in Studio 1311 making music magic with the swaying accordion. \u201cDaddy He Don\u2019t Care\u201d rips with a fiddle weaving poetically like Hoe\u2019s words capturing that honky-tonk jive.\u00a0 Tommy Hoe with his band The Barncats will keep everyone swinging with this one when live music returns. The next track \u201cDealing Feelings\u201d reminds one of listening to a Hank Williams record and again has an excellent mix with a sparkle of piano brightening the mood.\u00a0 Again the lyrics don\u2019t disappoint, \u201cSee I\u2019ve got so many feelings, that I bury deep inside, That I never, really ever shared before, but if your hearts would like to listen, baby give us one more try, come on back and you will find an open door.\u201d You can bet this listener and many others will be back for more of Hoe\u2019s great songwriting skills. \u201cNobody\u2019s Children\u201d mood is captured so well with a lingering cello shedding light on the difficulties of being part of a family and raising one as well. This ballad also has some great fingerpicking from Producer Brian Kors and one can see how he has been affected by the longtime friendship with Hoe. The only cover on the album is an Arlen\/Mercer tune called \u201cOne For My Baby\u201d and the smooth organ and saxophone lines interweave with a steady backline and Hoe\u2019s voice again moving like a piece of country\/jazz as Willie Nelson also perfected.\u00a0 The final track is a spoken word poem entitled \u201cDevils Playground\u201d with some haunting organ chosen so well by Hoe and Kors. The poem is amazing and captures Dylan\u2019s writing styles of \u201cLast Thoughts on Woody Guthrie\u201d mixed with Hoe\u2019s life experiences as a cowboy traversing America.\u00a0 This is a true gem.\u00a0 In all the record works amazingly well and each song holds its own strengths.\u00a0 Masterfully produced and one of the great surprises of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Upstate New York legend Tommy Hoe has been busy, secretly and safely recording a new record at Studio 1311 in Pennsylvania.The record \u201cEYE OF A DREAM\u201d was produced by Brian Kors and engineered by Gregory Brady. A slew of amazing musicians were tapped including Doug Gramo, Brian Kors, Cole Will, Alex Uskuraits, Keith Giosa, Bill […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":3580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,64],"tags":[4844],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-folk-americana","tag-tommy-hoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}