Dream Café

Dream Café
Studio album by Greg Brown
Released	1992
Genre	Folk
Length	50:42
Label	Red House
Producer	Bo Ramsey
Greg Brown chronology
Down in There (1990) Dream Café (1992) Friend of Mine (1993)

Dream Café is an album by American folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown, released in 1992.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	(B)[2]

Music critic David Freedlander praised the release in his Allmusic review, writing Brown "Brown produces an album as light and refreshing as a summer breeze. Although it is plagued by the inconsistency which characterizes most of his studio work, some of his most heartfelt and enduring songs can be found on this album..."^[1] Bill Wyman of Entertainment Weekly wrote "... on Dream Café he's more varied musically — he'll do a grinding blues and even flirt with jazz. Also, he wields simpler but more forceful melodies, and is still very capable of pulling off a marvelous portrait, as in the moving Spring Wind."^[2]

Track listing

All songs by Greg Brown.

1. "Just by Myself" – 4:45
2. "Sleeper" – 4:28
3. "I Don't Know That Guy" – 4:51
4. "So Hard" – 2:38
5. "You Can Watch Me" – 3:37
6. "Dream Cafe" – 5:55
7. "You Drive Me Crazy" – 4:56
8. "Spring Wind" – 4:32
9. "Nice When it Rains" – 3:10
10. "Laughing River" – 4:16
11. "No Place Away" – 4:10
12. "I Don't Want to Be the One" – 3:24

Personnel

• Greg Brown – vocals, guitar, harmonica
• Bo Ramsey – guitar
• Tim Sparks – requinto
• Robin Adnan Anders – percussion, tabla, tupan, dourbakee
• Gordon Johnson – bass
• Dan Lund – guitar
• Kate McKenzie – background vocals
• Willie Murphy – piano, organ

Production

• Produced by Bo Ramsey
• Engineered by Tom Tucker
• Mixed by Bob Feldman

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Freedlander, David. "Dream Cafe > Review". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r122845. Retrieved December 6, 2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Wyman, Bill (June 1992). "Review: Dream Cafe". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20231832,00.html. 

External links

• "The Ten Best Albums of 1992" Fast Folk Musical Magazine, (February 1993) p.12-13