Bob Martin, The River Turns The Wheel - 51m 41s

Tracks & Durations

1. American Street Dream	4:27
2. River Turns The Wheel	4:45
3. Better Than No Luck	2:49
4. Silver Rails To Rio	4:03
5. Daylight And The Dream	3:53
6. Sweet River Days	4:19
7. Stella Kerouac	5:42
8. Salisbury Beach	6:11
9. Sunshine Avenue	3:36
10. The Old Worthen	3:17
11. When Cotton Was King	4:15
12. Goin' Home	4:15

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Review

New England-based folksinger Bob Martin allowed a decade to pass between his first and second albums. He needed more time before he was ready to cut this, his third release. The River Turns the Wheel came out a full 15 years after 1982's Last Chance Rider, proving, among other things, that good things sometimes take time. A dozen uniformly superior songs adorn this measured, reflective collection. Martin's Dylan-esque vocals and lived-in lyrics are the focal points here; musical support (including background vocals by Bill Morrissey and novelist Cormac McCarthy) is applied with appropriate thrift. With references to textile mills and Jack Kerouac's homebody sister, Stella, providing the details, The River Turns the Wheel feels a little like Dylan's Blood on the Tracks moored in Massachusetts. --Steven StolderThis is Martin's Third album and one that has met with some pretty impressive critical acclaim. Chosen "The Best Folk CD in 1997" by several major newspapers and magazines such as The San Jose Mercury News, The Lowell Sun, The Electric City News and other periodicals, this CD continues to generate interest and praise as an important work by "one of Americas best songwriters". The Acoustic/folk music scene is still buzzing with incredible reviews in Acoustic Musician Magazine, Folk Roots Magazine, Gavin Magazine, Relix Magazine and many others.

Possessed of a slightly raspy voice, singer/songwriter Bob Martin delivers some very powerful imagery and depth in the lyrics of these twelve songs. Martin is the internationally recognized poet of the sleazy all-night diner, the flea bag hotel, the jazz man musician sleeping in his station wagon, with images of late night subway trains, fishing from an abandoned train trestle, a failed economy, long-abandoned textile mills and so much more.

Martin presents an image of his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts that has been compared to the early work of Jack Kerouac. In fact one of the songs, "Stella Kerouac", brings to life a portrait of Kerouac's third and last wife, Stella. At the same time, the song also etches one of the finest images we've seen of Jack.

Widely heralded as one of the most important CD's to be released in 1997, The River Turns the Wheel is a brilliant collection of songs that read like three-minute novels and will continue to delight and entertain as a classic treasure for many years to come.

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