Touches the Soul
5
By CJ Tallahassee
I listen everyday and at night to sleep. Deep complexities with CSO. The best.
Perfect.
5
By wchhcw
Buy this now.
This is everything
5
By Byrd000
Just wonderful, so lovely. I only wish they did ‘That Moon Song’, it’s my favorite song of his.
Favorite Artist Ever
5
By erica aguirre
Love how some of his older songs sound on here
Accidental Find
5
By clancydubh
Never heard of this guy until this morning when I stumbled upon him in the "Listeners Also Bought" part of an Angus & Julia Stone album on iTunes. Usually I find this bunch of recommendations worthless but this was a stoke of great luck. I find as I get older that I compare new artists to older familiar favorites and the name that immediately came to mind is Tom Rush. Not to say he is a clone (far from it) but there is something familiar to his voice and that is warmth. Highly recommended!
Great songwriter!
5
By walker!!!
Greg is one of my favorite singer/songwriters along with Iron & Wine and The White Buffalo. This album is a must if you love poets with an acoustic guitar.
Soundtrack To Your Life
5
By u2jrmw
I like many of the songs on this album, but the specifically the song Amsterdam impacted me and led me to write this...
Do you ever hear a song that makes you feel like it’s the soundtrack to your life? That every time you hear it you pause and wonder if you are really in some kind of Truman Show scenario, where everyone is watching this pivotal part of your story. That the music supervisor of your life has found just the right song to illustrate and amplify this particular moment of hope, tragedy, or desperation. Perhaps this is the end of the second act where you get beat down to your lowest point (don’t worry, act three is coming and that’s where redemption can so often be found), or maybe that indescribable swelling feeling of falling in love, or the wretched loneliness of heartbreak. Somehow the music transcends you being taken to the songwriters world and instead it becomes part of your reality, not just sound waves coming from a speaker, it is there delicate and exquisite, to be touched and held. Sometimes the words are the method by which you connect, but more often just the entirety of the sound is what drills deep into your brain, the tone of the voice means more than the words themselves, the swoop of the orchestra, the pounding of the beat, or the gentle pluck of the guitar strings. This is the opposite of an “ear-worm”, this is not a tune that gets stuck spinning around your head endlessly, this is a song that immediately removes you from the world around you, while simultaneously bringing everything into extreme-focus, you are watching your movie along with the audience, like an out-of-body experience. it is a song that feels like it is resonating at the same frequency as every atom in your body, to the point that you can’t quite understand how someone who doesn’t know you could have created it, for surely it was meant for you. I love that feeling, whether the song brings sadness or joy, it also brings a sense of humanity, a shared consciousness.
Regrettably this is transient, it is a perfect alignment of your brain chemistry and the patterns embedded in the music that have the mystical ability to create this experience, everything changes, and a year from now when you hear the song again, you may just think to yourself “hey that’s a good song”.
Wow
5
By TeoJM
Absolutely breath taking.
:)
5
By KittiesFOREVER
Who know music could make my so happy. This is so unique and beautiful and I didn't know I needed it until I heard it.
GORGEOUS
5
By kedge0417
unique arragements to accent his beautiful lyrics
Magnifi
5
By TheGreenWizardNC
Bravo ! Whether sitting in the doorway of his VW bus or in the midst of a dramatic symphony Mr. Isakov delivers. His music is full of valleys and peaks. It reads like a book written in nature as it is all inspired by the same.
Perfect!
5
By Minstrelofthedawn
Every single one of these songs was absolutely beautiful! The arrangements for every single one were well written and very well played. It was interesting to hear what Greg and the orchestra could do with his old songs to add a little something, and Liars was an awesome new song. This has quickly become one of my favorite albums of all time! Keep it up, Greg!
The best album I've heard in a really long time....
5
By dirk77
Worth every penny....
So good!
5
By Woo79
Buy it!
Beautiful
5
By calgeog
This is one of the most beautiful albums I've ever heard. I like his music anyway, but this I just keep listening to over and over. It fills my heart - the songs and symphony are a perfect, sweet dance.
Fantastic
5
By ptwspurs
Best album I own
The Stable Song
4
By CharmingCharles2896
I've always loved "The Stable Song" it's one of my favorite songs. I'm interested to hear more of this new version.
Incredible risk with beautiful results
5
By bigmatty44
Not many artists today have the guts (or the vision) to try something this different. This album is simply gorgeous and a true pleasure to listen to. I'll enjoy this for a long long time.
No words....
5
By Brookebags
Wow. Truly breath taken by listening through this entire album. If you have any interest in Indie-folk music, or just great music in general, you have to check out Gregory Alan. I've followed his music for many years now and it's incredible to see his songs come together with such a talented symphony. Unique and beautiful, per usual. Gregory Alan is by far one of my favorite artists and a true lyrical genius. June 27th at Spirit Square cannot come soon enough!!!
