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    Zoubek & Bryant

    Hinge

    (1999)

    Reviewed by Shari Lloyd

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    Wow! There are so many great singer-songwriters around the it's hard to believe I'm calling your attention to another one but here they are--Zoubek & Bryant. Clearly falling into the folk category, they can hardly be called average. Like Caedmon's Call and Simon and Garfunkel, they excel in simple well-played acoustic guitars and wonderful thoughtful lyrics which paint wonderful pictures of relationships using images of their Eastern seacoast home. We've brought back Swing, and the big band sound, rockabilly, surf music. Isn't it time to give some of these great folk bands a larger platform and bring back folk as a major popular genre of music--start today by picking up this album.

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    The Phantom Tollbooth 1999Reviewed by Steven S. BaldwinYou could subtitle this debut album as "sea-side townsfolk who play really swell, wholesome folk music straight from an earthly-bound but heavenly-minded heart." Chances are you've never heard of them, but here is substantial proof that sometimes the best news is not the most well spread. Zoubek & Bryant's exposure under the moniker Threefold Cord on the second Awakening Compilation last year…

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