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1. Tangerine

2. Hard To Remember
3. The Trouble With Henry

4. Chatterbox

5. Reminded #1
6. Hunting Season
7. Fighting For Your Life

8. Sugar On The Knees

9. Hallelujah, I Was Wrong

10. Suddenly, A Summer Night

11. Making It Up Again

12. Choosing Teams 

Total time: 40:36

Tangerine
David Mead
Tallulah!

A relatively unknown singer/songwriter/musician who’s been honing his craft for years, first in various bands and then as a solo artist, Mead has suffered through more than one label merger and even lost an entire album in the process. Now, forming his own label to prevent a second album from being sucked into the Music Industry Black Hole, he gives the world “Tangerine.”

Mead’s perseverance is pop connoisseurs’ gain: It’s the best album Paul McCartney never recorded, sung by Harry Nilsson and arranged by Brian Wilson. Tying most of the songs together is the lyrical theme of married life – a refreshing but also honestly surreal topic. 

Mead and producer/engineer Brad Jones (Jill Sobule, Josh Rouse, Butterfly Boucher) play the guitars, keyboards and bass; friends and accomplices add strings, percussion and, occasionally, saxophone.

Making the album even more enjoyable is the fact that on any given song, Mead plays ukulele, vibraphone, glockenspiel, clavinet and/or mellotron. Plus there are cameo appearances by pennywhistle, flute, calliope, harmonium, Theremin and chromatic autoharp.

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june 2006 reviews