Description:
Like all brilliant, beautifully rendered albums, American Babies new release washes over you with wit, wisdom and tenderness. For the self-titled debut . . . Philadelphia-bred front man and songwriter Tom Hamilton has combined his urbane mindset with the country music of his childhood, creating work that places him alongside career artists like Ryan Adams, Conor Oberst, and Jeff Tweedy. ... At the time Hamilton started writing acoustic roots material like the titled track, American Babies, he was far from home. Hed been writing, performing, and enjoying a swell of critical acclaim with his band Brothers Past yielding a wellspring of positive notices that could possibly have been his ticket to the big time. But his heart wasnt entirely in the process as it stood. For some time, I had wanted to get more into the music I grew up on. ... Which is exactly what he did. He returned to the Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash records his dad made him listen to as a kid, but heard them differently this time. The sounds inspired him wholeheartedly and he began writing in a similar vein. . . Hamilton is a top-rate songwriter. And with the accompaniment of bassist/brother Jim Hamilton and drummer Joe Russo, and Guitarist Scott Metzger, American Babies has developed into something extraordinary. - kyndmusic.com (Sci-Fidelity)
