Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem - Big Old Life

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Album Details: Big Old Life

Release Date:: 06/12/2007
Label:: Signature Sounds
UPC:: 701237200521

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Big Old Life is an album bursting with fun and exuberance, the quartet known as Daisy Mayhem balancing a tight sound with spirit that translates perfectly through stereo headphones. "Joy Comes Back", a song composed by Sean Staples of the band The Resophonics (a group with Paul Kochanski of The Swinging Steaks to give the reader a point of reference) opens this terrific blend of old and new sounds with something that can only be described as Gospel music played at a hootenanny. Deb Pasternak, Polly Fiveash, Rose Sinclair and Indra RiosMoore all add to the backing vocals which make it sound like a big old party, as much as a big old life. And speaking of the title track, Loretta Lynn would be proud of this Arbo original, Anand Nayak's smart guitar playing halfway to Hawaii, the hootenanny morphing into a luau. The traditional "Red Haired Boy", with lyrics by Rani Arbo, is an interesting role reversal while the cover of "Thief" gives the music a 180, bluesy and deep, an eloquent change of pace from the incessant uptempo "mayhem". Leonard Cohen's "Heart With No Companion" has Andrew Kinsey's banjo front and center with Arbo's fiddle falling in and rounding out the mood. Bob Dylan's "Farewell, Angelina" has an interesting production by the band and Chris Rival, harmonica from Ben Ross and the fiddlegonewild giving Mr. Zimmerman something different to think about. The cardboard foldout cover is chock full of pictures like the band is auditioning for a Beatles or Herman's Hermits film, photos with smiles that reflect the very polished and exciting work within. In the 80s and 90s Boston had a regional act called The Country Bumpkins which had the buzz and were a favorite for quite some time. Daisy Mayhem fill that void nicely while front person Rani Arbo proves she could be the Kitty Wells of the new millennium by delivering this heartfelt disc which is very deserving of your time and ear.

- Joe Viglione, All Music Guide

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Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem Biography

Throughout the '90s, Boston-based singer/fiddler Rani Arbo led the critically-acclaimed acoustic roots band Salamander Crossing. After the group's swan song, 2000's Henry Street: A Retrospective, Arbo pursued a solo career with her support band Daisy...Full Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem Biography

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