2. Apostle Of The Street (5:53)
3. Mother Of Exile (3:35)
4. Forgotten Son (4:26)
5. These People (3:03)
6. Novembertown (5:17)
8. Killing Time (3:31)
9. Red America (2:26)
10. Madrid (3:15)
11. Baghdad Girl (3:21)
Gary Paulak - Slide, guitar, background vocals.
Jay Lee - Bass guitar.
Scott Homan - Drums and percussion.
From
PULSE of The Twin Cities,
Your Locally Grown Alternative Newspaper, May 11- May 17, 2005:
"American
Grotesque" — Barry Thomas Goldberg
Veteran Minneapolis rocker/songwriter B.T. Goldberg returns with an inviting
batch of politically/socially-conscious nuggets on American Grotesque.
Along with his longtime mates The Sins (Gary Paulack, slide guitar, backing
vocals; Jay Lee, bass; and Scott Homan, drums and percussion), Goldberg
wields a mighty sword of musical Truth as he calls on the carpet a veritable
who’s who of shady national and international characters and explores
in depth some increasingly frustrating (and terrifying) current events.
Kicking off with the visceral rock ’n’ roll attack of the
title track, this record only gets more interesting and controversial
as the grooves fly by. Though he’s been on the scene since the mid-’60s,
Goldberg has a fresh, no-bullshit approach to today’s techs-and-bugs-an’-schlock-n-roll
world, and A.G. proves that he’s only just begun his personal quest
for universal truth, justice and equality. File this one right up there
(for subject matter as well as musical savvy) with the likes of Leonard
Cohen, Springsteen, Curtiss A and Iggy Pop. Voices like Barry’s
are needed now more than ever—as much for the thought provoking
material as for the healing they insist upon. On “These People,”
Barry soulfully intones, “... America, you got a wounded heart ...”
Let the closure begin here. Great stuff from a true blue Midwestern rocker.
Check Barry out online at IronWeeds.com. —
www.pulsetc.com
Straightforward old-school rock with a vibrant edge. Goldberg is a singer/songwriter in his fifties who's been kicking around the Minneapolis music scene for a couple of decades; his age and experience blaze through this simultaneously good-natured and apocalyptic song. Goldberg's deep, cigarette-stained voice brings the late Warren Zevon to mind, but there's an added Graham Parker-like snap and snarl to his delivery and something Dylanesque about the whole carnival-like enterprise, with its cavalcade of characters and situations set to a rollicking 3/4 beat. "American Grotesque" is the title track of Goldberg's most recent CD, released earlier this year...
. — fingertipsmusic.com/this_weeks_finds
"... raw, wounded songs of an American outcast."
"... full of biting social commentary and songs of dissent."
Chris Roberts — Minnesota Public Radio.
Read the article on the MPR internet site: "A Child Of The 60's Rocking at 50."
Sins are a new four piece rock n'
roll band composed of former
members of Sombertown and The
Ironweeds. The Sins are Gary Paulak on guitar, Jay Lee, bass and Scott Homan, drums. They perform songs from singer, guitarist Barry Thomas Goldberg's two critically acclaimed CDs "Empire Moon" and "Cottonwood"
Nathan Hall — Lost Cause
"Cool..... "
Chris Riemenscheider — Minneapolis Star Tribune
"The Twin Cities quintessential urban rocker"
Tom Surowicz — Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Goldberg perfectly captures the ethereal quality that so many have posthumously ascribed to Elliott Smith"
Melissa Amos — Splendid