AMG Review of Down in There

Jason Ankeny
All Music Guide

Best known for his appearances on Garrison Keillor's #Prairie Home Companion program, Greg Brown proves himself an able songwriter as well as a singer on Down in There. While the majority of the album's songs are ballads leaning toward spare folk and country, "Poor Backslider" fits snugly into a Southern rock groove, while "If I Had Known" lopes along like an old rockabilly shuffle; all serve Brown's broken-in baritone wonderfully.