John Brannen - Twilight Tattoo

For Twilight Tattoo John Brannen applies his keen songwriter's eye to his Southern homeland, albeit from a different vector after moving to Asheville in the North Carolina mountains (which he recounts in the album's vibrant closing grace note, The Mountain). 'I used to like to say that my songs are where Shakespeare meets Freud in the swamp, but this is where Shakespeare meets Freud in the mountains,' Brannen explains. 'There's this sense you get up here where you can look back and almost see the ocean.'

The set starts with a rabble-rousing glance towards his past on Just Restless - 'I've been that guy on and off for too many years,' Brannen admits with a chuckle.

And then there's the title track - 'a song I had to write,' says Brannen - and its look at the people of the current war zone through the eyes of a rank and file Southern guy in the service. 'In the modern world, war's devastation is on civilians more than soldiers, and it's something I just couldn't ignore.'

Track Listing :

• Just Restless
• Boom Baby Boom
• Almost Love
• Cut So Deep
• Heartbreak Ridge
• Black Mountain Dandy
• Goin' Fishin'
• Jericho Road
• Twilight Tattoo
• Vagabond Saints
• Rain
• Mountain

More information about John Brannen can be found at the John Brannen website