Silver Jews Bright Flight CD

Bright Flight Music

List Price	$15.98 (You save $2.93)
Category	Rock Albums, Rock/Pop CDs, Lo Fi, Enhanced CD
Label	Drag City
Orig Year	2001
All Time Sales Rank	43372
CD Universe Part number	2240229
Catalog number	29215
Discs	1
Release Date	Nov 20, 2001
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Producer	Mark Nevers
Engineer	Mark Nevers
Personnel	Tony Crow - electric guitar Tim Barnes - percussion William Tyler - pedal steel guitar David Berman - vocals, guitar Phil Niehaus - piano

Silver Jews Bright Flight Songs

	1.	Slow Education
	2.	Room Games and Diamond Rain
	3.	Time Will Break the World
	4.	I Remember Me
	5.	Horseleg Swatikas
	6.	Transylvania Blues
	7.	Let's Not and Say We Did
	8.	Tennessee
	9.	Friday Night Fever
	10.	Death of an Heir of Sorrows

Bright Flight Music Review

Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars) 4 stars

4 stars Alt country hero
Dave sounds a bit froggy here and there, but this is a great record. Maybe their most country-ish. After the first listen or two, you don't miss SM really.
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