With his trademark raspy, warm voice in tow, Cliff Eberhardt imparts School for Love with what sounds like a newfound passion and understanding of life. It's no wonder, considering he survived the sickness and death of his mother along with a serious car accident that left him suffering from chronic pain. He credits his musical compatriot Seth Farber and Farber's vocalist wife, Liz Queler, with helping him through this dark phase and finishing the record. It's not that he necessarily came ou...   [ read more ]

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Front and center are Cliff Eberhardt's expressive voice and his effective string work on guitar and dobro, making this the first real folk-sounding album this singer/songwriter had ever made. Eberhardt had backed away somewhat from his romantic obsessions on his previous album, Mona Lisa CafT, but without replacing them effectively with other subjects. On 12 Songs of Good and Evil, he expanded those obsessions from merely interpersonal love relationships to general behavior. The title didn't im...   [ read more ]

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Though he called his fourth album 12 Songs of Good and Evil, Cliff Eberhardt spent more time examining the line between the two, so it was appropriate to call the follow-up Borders. Like its predecessor, it was a self-produced effort that eschewed the rock band instrumentation of his first three albums for stripped-down arrangements more suggestive of Eberhardt's sound in concert. Actually, here, without adding personnel, he added instrumentation, often overdubbing several lines of electric and...   [ read more ]

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