North Hollywood Skyline

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#		Title	Length
1		Get The Losers Out	4:20	Play
2		Sweetheart Of The Rodeo	5:11	Play
3		Bottom Of The Bottle	4:58	Play
4		Westward Heaven	3:38	Play
5		Come Along & Thrill Us	3:46	Play
6		Seaway/Seaside	1:46	Play
7		We're Alt.Country (& Yer Not)	2:02	Play
8		North Hollywood Skyline	3:40	Play
9		Charade	5:19	Play
10		Seaway/Seaside (reprise)	1:05	Play
11		Wish I Knew	4:58	Play
12		Names	3:50	Play
13		Surf Bum	4:26	Play

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"Outstanding follow up to 2003's Lone Star album bridging the divide between country and the Beatles." (Rated 9 on a scale of 10) -Mark Whitfield, AMERICANA-UK (www.american-uk.com)

Praise for North Hollywood Sklyine:

Outstanding follow up to 2003's Lone Star album bridging the divide between country and the Beatles.

Texas born Brady Harris has been around for a while now, garnering critical acclaim and winning awards for his last three records from various quarters. Now based in LA, its the inbetween years of Harris adventures in Europe which often appear to have had the greatest impact on his music, giving him a unique hybrid sound of classic Americana tacked to a much more anglo-cised sound, and in particular the Beatles. And yeah, every other band can claim to be influenced by Lennon and McCartney but few do it with such conviction as Harris, partly because he doesnt just sound like them but he often writes like them too. North Hollywood Skyline is undeniably Americana but the songs themselves are so strong and Beatles-esque at times that you do have to check the credits to reassure yourself the tunes havent been nicked. Tracks like the opener Get the Losers Out and Come Along and Thrill Us contain gentle lilting melodies, almost sardonic lyrics and really memorable hooks. The dichotomy between the various angles of his sound are wryly explored on Were Alt Country (& Yer Not) (which should give record shop owners some genre based categorisation headaches) but there are some genuinely sublime country ballads here too the arrangement on Sweetheart of the Rodeo in particular can make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck without any difficulty at all, and Westward Heaven takes an almost blues based riff and turns it into something more developed and creative which builds beautifully. Harris voice throughout is one of the most distinctive on the current Americana scene with echoes of Elton John and Lennon himself, and pedal steel provided by the Minus 5s Tucker Jackson provides a quality backdrop for many of the songs. At the end of the day, for all the excitement the album generates in its studio form as released, you know that alone with a guitar and Harris voice, the songs could speak for themselves quite easily unhindered by production. Unique and definitely worth exploring.

(Rated 9 on a scale of 10!)

-Mark Whitfield, AMERICANA-UK (www.americana-uk.com)

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Press samples for "Lone Star":

The Texas-bred, Los Angeles based Harris goes on a highly-rewarding musical trip through Beatlesesque pop-rock and singer-songwriter intimacy.
Michael Berick, NO DEPRESSION MAGAZINE

One of the strongest roots-pop releases we`ve heard not only in 2003 but in the last few years.
-NOT LAME RECORDS

More evidence that it's what's lurking beneath the radar that's really important, Brady Harris - following the familiar career trajectory of starving busker (in London and Paris), accidental recordings, critical acclaim (not the least of which came at the NxNW conference in '99) impressive underground success ($5000 from MP3.com) and still no major label deal - has just released his third album, recorded at home with the assistance of a $500 Shure microphone he won for his roots-grass version of Motorhead's 'Ace Of Spades'. Intrigued? Good, for mere words can never do him justice. Ignore, then, the fact that Harris' voice bears comparisons with John Lennon; ignore the fact that he creates a beguiling brand of alt. power country pop, something like Peter Bruntnell massaging Big Star; ignore the fact that Harris can take on Joe Pernice in his own back yard and win. Ignore these words, let your ears do the judging, and you're left wondering where this California-dwelling Texan has been hiding all your life.

-Michael Ornadet, LOGO-MAGAZINE (UK)