Bill Woodard
My River Home
© 2002 Bill Woodard (634479502057) (format: CD-R)
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Original, acoustic songs spanning the folk, country, and blues genres, featuring voice, guitar, and harmonica.
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“This is indeed a great album. Superb lyrics, wonderful acoustic guitar playing, and brilliant sound quality. I bought this album having listened to the funny "Refund on my Loving" about a man who finds out just how unfaithful his wife has been. With one exception, the songs are just Bill Woodard, his expressive voice, guitar and harmonica. The range of songs is wide: Some are wryly funny like the song mentioned above, others are more bittersweet and tender like "Ghosts of Lovers Past" and "Grandpa's Birthday" is a melancholic masterpiece. My own personal favourite is "Thursday Afternoon". I haven't stopped playing it and find something new each time. Highly recommended.”
--(Lulu.com review)
This is a simple, bare-bones album that allows the songs to stand on their own. It doesn’t pretend to be anything other than what it is—a self-produced project focusing on the lyrics and acoustic accompaniment of the songs. The songs cover a wide range of material from humorous heartache to blues-tinged introspection, while flirting unabashedly along the way with sentimentality.
Bill grew up listening to the pop music of the ‘60s and ‘70s and considers the singer-songwriters of that generation to be his biggest influences. Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Jim Croce, and Jimmy Buffett are a few of his heroes. A fan of unaffected music, good lyrics, and a good story, Bill strives to keep the focus on the song by leaving out the distracting adornments and embellishments that can get in the way of what should be a simple experience—a songwriter communicating with his audience. Bill sums up his musical philosophy as follows: “I would rather listen to a small group of chamber musicians than an entire orchestra, and I prefer catching a talented but unknown singer-songwriter at my local coffee shop to a sold-out arena performance of the biggest name being hyped by the record labels.”