Keb' Mo', Big Wide Grin - 48m 28s

Tracks & Durations

1. Everybody Be Yoself	5:00
2. Love Train	4:29
3. Don't Say No	4:17
4. Infinite Eyes	4:57
5. Grandma's Hands	3:30
6. Color Him Father	3:36
7. Family Affair	3:47
8. The Flat Foot Floogie	2:04
9. I Am Your Mother Too	4:03
10. Big Yellow Taxi	3:45
11. Isn't She Lovely	5:16
12. America The Beautiful	3:35

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Review

Every photo included in Big Wide Grin's booklet has Keb' Mo' looking just as pleased as punch. The material on his fifth album is likewise overwhelmingly cheerful, a series of upbeat meditations on family life that, while occasionally idealized, are usually refreshingly realistic. It's this realism, the implicit understanding that families are frequently assembled out of far-flung components rather than adhering to some nuclear ideal, that makes Grin such a winner. That principle informs songs such as "I Am Your Mother, Too," addressed to an adopted child, and "Color Him Father," about the entrance of a stepparent into a family. The whole album is, in fact, a family affair, with members of Mo's family occasionally pulling background-vocal duty. Big Wide Grin is a summertime album for those still young enough to have the summer off. Fortunately, there's just enough bittersweet mixed in to keep the result from Pollyanna-hood. After all, what's the point of being reminded to count your blessings if you don't realize that that's what they are? --Genevieve Williams

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