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Epic.....
Let's start with the fact that it takes balls of steel to upload a nearly eight minute song for the notoriously "attention-deficit" garageband.com crew to review. I admit I probably groaned audibly when the time indicator popped up. But, then I was catapulted into the song by that lovely acoustic guitar and the harmonics, and we were off . . .

This song builds nicely up to the "So Alone" line. An interesting call and response type of vocal in the first segment. Very tight. The female voice particularly is wonderfully racked with emotion, she seems like she would be comfortable in many different genres.

Overall the music itself and the performance particularly were very strong. An interesting cross pollination of styles. There are elements of a lot of different styles at work here. The banjo and harp passage was particularly delightful then the dobro slides in and the mood is painted wonderfully.

The weakness, (if there was one) I felt was in the lyrics. With an obvious attempt at something truly epic, here . . . a few of the phrases seemed a little contrived; ie. "feeling so abused". I didn't care too much for the discordant vocal slide at around 3:07. Other than that, it's an extraordinary effort, and I'm very excited to hear more from this band. Good luck!
Reviewed by: knotlenny from The Mucklands (Upstate)