Description: Sit up. Pay attention.
You're holding a very special record in your hands. Try not to get any
marks on it, would you?
Welcome to Tim Lee's Concrete Dog.
The newest recorded effort the veteran, Knoxville, Tenn.-based songwriter
is a mad squall of rock energy and gimlet-eyed optimism that could only
be produced by a man who's still young-at-heart enough to believe in possibilities,
but wise enough to know that things rarely turn out the way you expect.
In short, it's vintage Tim Lee.
The third solo outing since he made his return to recording with 2001's
primarily acoustic Under the House, finds Lee re-exploring some of the
same fuzzed-up sonic ground he trod with 2004's No Discretion.
Like its predecessor, Concrete Dog finds Lee again working with drummer/producer
Don Coffey Jr., and bassist/wife Susan Bauer Lee.
And as with No Discretion, Lee again ventured into Coffey's Knoxville-based
Independent Recorders and Money Shot studios in Water Valley, Miss., to
lay down tracks. And, on the recommendation of Steve Wynn, Lee also cut
"Greyhound from Jackson" at Wave Lab in Tucson, Ariz., with
producer Craig Schumacher manning the boards.
"Like most things I do, there was no pre-planned idea," he explained.
"I just started recording songs as they came up, and as time passed,
it started to take shape."
So, here it is, Concrete Dog - proof positive
that Dylan Thomas was right: There is just no reason to go gently into
that good night.
Tim Lee sure isn't.
- John L. Micek, February 2006
Track Listing: 1 Concrete Dog
2 Half-Life
3 Alone Together
4 Ever Before
5 Get Up, Get Up
6 Here One Minute
7 Real Bad Habit
8 So Little to Tell
9 Live Through Me
10 Black & White to Me
11 Greyhound from Jackson
12 Threw it All Away Dead Guy Story
