On the title track to his sophomore effort, Supply and Demand, singer/songwriter Amos Lee sings, "Baby I need a plan to help me understand, that life ain't only supply and demand." If the supply and demand Lee is referring to is money, success, and power -- and it clearly is -- then the stuff he truly values here is the currency of freedom, love, and sympathy for your fellow man. It's just such yin-yang subject matter that has driven folksingers to set struggle to melody ever since Depression-era scufflers like Woody Guthrie pointed out how America was technically "made for you and me" and not just those in the nice suits. For the most part, Lee is on about the same stuff here, although his vantage point is the more stylish, if no less lonely, tour bus and not a dust bowler's flatbed truck. Nonetheless, Lee is a heartfelt songwriter with an R&B crooner's sense of romance and drama and a real knack for turning his own ennui into anthems for the average guy. He tackles wars of various stripes on "Freedom" and like John Mayer's "Waiting on the World to Change," the song finds Lee deftly threading the political needle with lines like "Don't want to blame the rich for what they got or point a finger at the poor for what they have not" and "Freedom is seldom found by beatin' someone to the ground." It's a catchy stump speech of a tune and, three songs in, lifts the album up from just pleasant into something truly welcome and unexpected. Similarly engaging is the sanguine, slow allad "Careless," which mixes the Band's "The Night We Drove Old Dixie Down" and Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Helpless" into a gut-wrenching and artful self-indictment of infidelity. However, it's the low-key and darkly sweet "Night Train" that should remain as not just the album's best cut, but Lee's signature song. Hypnotically simple, the song hangs on the chorus with Lee's candid omission, "I've been workin' on a night train/Drinkin' coffee, takin' cocaine/I'm out here on my night train/Tryin' to get her safely home." It's a hushed, rhythmically propulsive song filled with dramatic tension that is beautifully colored by shimmers of organ and lush guitars. On an album all about what's been bought and sold, both personally and collectively, it shows how in tune Lee is with this land of ours and how good he is at selling his soul in the best possible way.
Whooo.. I finally got a chance to buy the new album from Amos Lee! Time for some hot gentle baby making session.. uhm mmm... The ladies, [preferably southern girls] will definitely dig it when they hear these tunes pop off when they step in my lounge/room..
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I might have mentioned that in addition to my already full plate of graduate school (or rather, working on my dissertation proposal, funding applications, two side research projects, and getting ready to go to Africa) and hanging out with my hubby and friends, I work two days a week at a book and music store. Silly me-- I went into work tonight with the remnants of a terrible hangover and not w...
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I am completely under this man’s spell. I don’t really understand it, because usually music this mellow would have my skin crawling and my brain itchy. I do most of music listening in my car and I’m usually very angry in my car. Who isn’t? You have to battle idiots just to get to job that you hate on time. But, when one of his songs come on I literally feel all of my muscles relaxing.
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I think I've been living under a rock, or something. Every morning on my walk to the subway, I pass a construction site where they're rebuilding a townhouse. The wood walls infront of the place are always covered with snipes and for about two weeks earlier this month two of the snipes were for Amos Lee's new album. I've seen them other places around the city and for some reason, I just kind of ...
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I am completely under this man’s spell. I don’t really understand it, because usually music this mellow would have my skin crawling and my brain itchy. I do most of music listening in my car and I’m usually very angry in my car. Who isn’t? You have to battle idiots just to get to job that you hate on time. But, when one of his songs come on I literally feel all of my muscles relaxing.
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Amos Lee is a contemporary, urban troubador whose style has a wide appeal.This cut from the Supply and Demand CD is a personal favorite. Just thought I'd post some newer music so y'all didn't think I lived alone with 5,000 old LPs and a cat named Henry.
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I haven't been on MOG for awhile. How have y'all been? I've been busy working at a skate-shop as an art-designer. All I do is art-related, I also got a gig to work on graphics with* [not for] a skateboard manufacturer making skateboard & shirt graphics for skate companies around the U.S. So far I have made graphics for companies in Corpus-TX, San Diego, San Francisco, Florida & China. As a matt...
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Ok, here's the situation:I'm going on a little "reunion" trip, me and 4 of my best friends since junior high school. There are some songs I know I'm putting on (I've downloaded a couple of Bobby McFerrin songs), but I'm looking for some help fleshing out the 4 CDs I'm going to put together. The names of the CDs are:PreRallywindownafterMorningYou can guess what the theme is.I have some songs alr...
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Whooo.. I finally got a chance to buy the new album from Amos Lee! Time for some hot gentle baby making session.. uhm mmm... The ladies, [preferably southern girls] will definitely dig it when they hear these tunes pop off when they step in my lounge/room..
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lyrics - amos leease;flksd listen to the lyrics of the song attached...i need to get that new album ASAP.
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Yess... I finally have a new job on the grill at a Mexican restaurant call Chipotle.. Hmm, wonder what I'm gonna make first.. And the skate shop (De Libre) that accepted to sell my clothing line (SkyWorks Apparel) is finally going to open this Friday!! And to top that off, I get to have my parents' Honda Accord. Wee, celebrating this Saturday fore shore.. And it would make things alot better i...
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it has been a long day.. totally flipped out this afternoon and sabotage my beautiful beautiful piece of painting/collage that i spent well over 10 hours working on.spent all day at my HQ to make some graphics for another skateboard co.still have lots of paper-work for V.A.S.E. and i have to wake up at 7 tomorrow for my art competition. but i still got to fill out a critique form for my own art...
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I might have mentioned that in addition to my already full plate of graduate school (or rather, working on my dissertation proposal, funding applications, two side research projects, and getting ready to go to Africa) and hanging out with my hubby and friends, I work two days a week at a book and music store. Silly me-- I went into work tonight with the remnants of a terrible hangover and not w...
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I think I've been living under a rock, or something. Every morning on my walk to the subway, I pass a construction site where they're rebuilding a townhouse. The wood walls infront of the place are always covered with snipes and for about two weeks earlier this month two of the snipes were for Amos Lee's new album. I've seen them other places around the city and for some reason, I just kind of ...
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| 1 Shout out Loud |
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| 2 Sympathize |
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| 3 Freedom |
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| 4 Careless |
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| 5 Skipping Stone |
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| 6 Supply and Demand |
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| 7 Sweet Pea |
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| 8 Night Train |
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| 9 Southern Girl |
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| 10 The Wind |
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| 11 Long Line of Pain |
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