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fave it Rockin' Blues | Modern Folk
13 tracks | 50 minutes
Released Dec 2006
on Eben Brooks
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:22 Waiting For the Countdown lyrics BUY MP3 03:22 Waiting For the Countdown lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:22 Waiting For the Countdown
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:29 Lightbringer's Fall lyrics BUY MP3 03:29 Lightbringer's Fall lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:29 Lightbringer's Fall
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:48 Mirror lyrics BUY MP3 04:48 Mirror lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:48 Mirror
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:54 God Help Us All lyrics BUY MP3 03:54 God Help Us All lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:54 God Help Us All
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:57 Champs Élysées lyrics BUY MP3 02:57 Champs Élysées lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:57 Champs Élysées
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:17 Hippie Jack's Unsmokable Hash lyrics BUY MP3 03:17 Hippie Jack's Unsmokable Hash lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:17 Hippie Jack's Unsmokable Hash
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:20 At Night She Comes Home lyrics BUY MP3 02:20 At Night She Comes Home lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:20 At Night She Comes Home
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:56 Storms lyrics BUY MP3 04:56 Storms lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:56 Storms
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:46 Resolutions lyrics BUY MP3 03:46 Resolutions lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:46 Resolutions
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:54 Terminally Seventeen lyrics BUY MP3 03:54 Terminally Seventeen lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:54 Terminally Seventeen
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:04 Black Train lyrics BUY MP3 04:04 Black Train lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:04 Black Train
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:01 Stay With Me Tonight lyrics BUY MP3 06:01 Stay With Me Tonight lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:01 Stay With Me Tonight
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:29 Shh! It's a Secret! lyrics BUY MP3 03:29 Shh! It's a Secret! lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:29 Shh! It's a Secret!
A singer/songwriter with a damn fine voice, a social conscience and a chip on his shoulder.
Bio / Background
Is life nothing more than a series of problems? Of obstacles to overcome? Of always striving for the next “best thing”? According to Eben Brooks, the Acoustic Philosopher, it most certainly is not. “Music,” he says, “is about feeling good, but it’s also about doing good and being good.” His songs may be about love, war, power, pride, or religion. But the one thing they have in common is that they’re all geared toward helping us become better people. And that’s what his albums, Just Me and My Guitar and Mirrors, are all about.
For instance, “Princes, Friends, and Lovers” is, on the surface, about a man trying to win the love of a woman. But it’s also about how the choices we make in love can hurt us or heal us, and how a little self-examination—perhaps with the help of a friend—can help us understand the difference. “I wrote this song for a woman I was in love with,” he says, “who was always falling in love with losers.
↓ more ↓I’m sure everyone knows someone like that.” The song’s message is clear: when you “fall in love” with someone, it certainly helps if you actually like them first.
Another song, entitled “Lightbringer’s Fall,” deals with the frustration of having lofty dreams in our youth, only to end up working at a dead-end job when we get older. “I was working at the worst job I’d ever had, and it was making me completely miserable.” But instead of just wallowing in his misery, Eben chose to write about it. While “Lightbringer’s Fall” may not sound very positive in its outlook, its message is ultimately empowering: to change a bad situation, one must first recognize that one can change it. Once that happens, things can only get better.
Both of these songs tie in directly to the theme of Eben Brooks’ music, which is that it is always possible to take control of our own lives, our own relationships, our own destinies—and the first step in taking control is recognizing that there is a problem. “Too often,” Eben says, “people blame their problems on anything but themselves. It’s their bosses’ fault, or their spouses’ fault, or the government’s, or the media’s. They never take the time to figure out how they themselves are responsible for their situations.” And even though not all the protagonists in Eben Brooks’s songs realize that, we the listeners do, and we can recognize how each song is a step along that journey from self-delusion to self-fulfillment.
Just Me and My Guitar and Mirrors aren’t just music. They’re acoustic philosophy. And acoustic philosophy is about both making good music and doing good things—and thereby becoming better human beings.
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