Pat McGee Band: Pat McGee (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Al Walsh (acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo, background vocals); Jonathan Williams (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B-3 organ, background vocals); John Small (bass); Chris Williams (drums); Chardy McEwan (percussion).
Additional personnel: Brian Fechino (guitar); Warren Haynes (slide guitar); Michael C. Ghegan (soprano, tenor & baritone saxophones).
Recorded at The Site, Marin County, California and Laughing Tiger, San Rafael, California.
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
Giant Records must be hoping it has another Dave Matthews Band on its hands with the Pat McGee Band, another outfit formed by a Virginia-based singer/songwriter that issued several albums on its own label and built up a regional following by touring extensively. But the McGee Band is stylistically a little closer to an earlier Virginia model, Bruce Hornsby and the Range, than it is to Matthews. Their folk-rock tunes are full of acoustic guitars and such stringed instruments as banjo and mandolin; while they do not eschew electric instruments, their interest in melodies and harmonies give them more of a folk-pop than a jam-rock sound. Shine presents a band that has developed its own distinctive sound. ~ William Ruhlmann
Professional Reviews
CMJ (4/24/00, p.33) - "...High-energy, modern acoustic rock....with thick layers of organ, banjo and guitars, skilled playing and a knack for crafting earnest, radio-ready hooks."
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