"Just One More" captures in sound what the Mississippi author Larry Brown was after in his novels and stories: the grit and soul of the American South. There's dreamy, Lucinda-style country by Pieta Brown; broken-down blues by T-Model Ford; and plenty of moonshine to go around.
Larry Brown?s business card listed his occupation as ?Human Being?. Like many other professional human beings, Larry loved music. He felt music and it showed in his writing. As he moved through the world, Larry got to know a lot of musicians, and a lot of musicians got to know Larry, either personally or through his work.
Just One More, A Musical Tribute to Larry Brown is a compilation of tunes by artists who were his friends, fans and peers. With 18 tracks, 12 of which are previously unreleased, the album has contributions from a wide range of critically acclaimed artists, among them Alejandro Escovedo (whom Larry performed with periodically), T-Model Ford, Vic Chesnutt, Jim Dickinson (with Duff Dorrough), Robert Earl Keen, Cary Hudson (Blue Mountain), Brent Best (Slobberbone, The Drams) and the North Mississippi Allstars, to name a few. Some of these songs were written for the project, songs for Larry and about his characters, such as Caroline Herring?s ?Song For Fay?, exploring the title character of Fay, a novel published in 2000. The album closes with a song performed by Larry himself, accompanied by Clyde Edgerton, a Southern novelist of great renown.
?The simple concept of this disc was to put together a mix tape of sorts, the type of thing that Larry would have enjoyed listening to as he drove his little truck into the gloam? with a cooler full of beer and an ass pocket of something that burns a little bit on the way down,? explains producer Tim Lee. ?I knew him and I admired his work, and you didn?t have to know Larry well to have a keen awareness of his love of music,? he says. Mary Annie Brown, Larry?s wife concurs, saying, ?Larry absolutely loved music. I think he wished sometimes that he had the talent to do music for a living. He always played his guitar every night. If he had to skip playing, he would always say he felt like the day was wasted.?
"From the artists gathered here on this tribute record, it tells me that Larry Brown didn?t just love music, he loved great music."
Justin Scro, Cashbox
"Both discs are filled with music that is personable, human and instantly lovable - characteristics attributed to Brown's writing and the author himself."
Wayne Bledsoe, Knoxville News Sentinel
"For Brown fans one of the joys his stuff has always provided is the music that percolates through his books--his characters always seemed to be rummaging around on the floorboards of some pickup truck, looking for the perfect thing to pop into a tape deck..[This CD] is a good thing to have with you, out riding in the gloam."
Dwight Garner, New York Times
