This fifth outing by songwriter Mason Jennings is a down-to-the-floorboards recording of quiet dignity, humorous grace, and elegant craft. Use Your Voice is an acoustic guitar, bass, and drums affair that feels like it was recorded live from the studio floor (just a short dance step away from his debut living-room record in 1998). Use Your Voice's sound is gorgeous; its warm and inviting ambience is similar to the timeless sound found on Paul Burch's records. It could have been recorded in the ...   [ read more ]

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"Make yourself at home," is the opening line of the excellent eight-song debut by Minneapolis singer/songwriter Mason Jennings. It is an appropriate opening line, because this album will seem like familiar favorite after just one listen. If Jennings knows anything about music, he knows how to write a hook. But the songs here are not made up of just catchy melodies. Like Paul Simon, he also knows how to capture a mood and character with a few short lines, and the fact that all of this is set to an ...   [ read more ]

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Make yourself at home, is the opening line of the excellent eight-song debut by Minneapolis singer/songwriter Mason Jennings. It is an appropriate opening line, because this album will seem like familiar favorite after just one listen. If Jennings knows anything about music, he knows how to write a hook. But the songs here are not made up of just catchy melodies. Like Paul Simon, he also knows how to capture a mood and character with a few short lines, and the fact that all of this is set to an undeniable ...   [ read more ]

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