Greg Allen
It's Time That Time Was Overthrown
© 2008 Gregory Allen Morgoglione (796873034487)
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A smoothly diverse record of acoustic folk/rock/Americana with lyrics you might live by, featuring some of Central Virginia's finest. Full color CD booklet introduces Alice, the Canine Messiah, & features wisdom from Greg's Conversations with Dog.
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From the opening chords of the first song, “The Story of Our Lies”, Greg Allen’s new CD “It’s Time That Time Was Overthrown,” unfolds like a rich, dense tapestry of sounds and images that takes the listener on a carefully crafted musical journey. I really enjoyed the experience.
Using a traditional acoustic folk approach as his foundation, Greg weaves his lyrics around and through each song as if he was retelling you the song's story right there on the spot. Melodic acoustic guitar lines often join Greg’s voice in a wonderful counterpoint that gives you the sense that you’re eavesdropping on a couple of old friends.
Along with a variety of different percussion instruments used to help drive the songs along, Greg is complimented by beautifully layered and often very haunting female harmony vocals that lift the listener’s ear away to a time long ago and place where stories were passed down through the ages, one conversation at a time.
Greg's creative arrangements of covers like REM's "End of the World As We Know It", Dolly Parton's "Jolene" and even the old standard "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" give the CD great balance and always keeps the listener wondering what's around the next musical bend in the road. "It's Time That Time Was Overthrown" truly has an ageless quality which will keep the songs and stories alive in my mind for a long time to come and keep the listener coming back to visit again and again...and again. Nice job, Greg! Mark Oblinger 3/1/08 (Mark is an award winning songwriter and a former member of the band Firefall)
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"That Greg Allen makes music worth listening to is undeniable..." (Tom Graham - intro to "Insights" interview on WMRA 103.1fm Harrisonburg VA)
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Greg Allen is a musical outreach advocate, singer-songwriter, instigator of the Order of the Musical Pork Chop(tm), founder of SongSharing, philosopher, writer, teacher & do-ru of The Now Exspirientuality(tm).
In addition to the "traditional music thing" of writing, performing and recording his songs Greg has been Overthrowing Time since 1995 - allowing him to include Community Venues in his performance schedule, bringing hundreds of hours of entertainment to overlooked audiences in his community. His advocacy has resulted in Community Venue shows from David Wilcox, Rishell & Raines, Andrew McKnight, Dana & Susan Robinson and others.
Greg and his friends have begun the SongSharing On Tour effort, playing Community Venue shows in towns like Martinsville, VA, Greensboro, NC, Nashville, TN and Athens, GA when they tour in support of the new CD.