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Mark Geary's fourth album, Opium, quietly creeps in stores today, September 16th. SonaBlast! Records are doing an excellent job releasing these singer/songwriter music, so if you're at all interested in folk music, you should definitely see what else they've released.
Geary was Irish-born (one of eight siblings, no less), emigrated to New York when he was 19 years old and started his career as a musician. By 1999, he released his debut album and nearly 10 years later we have Opium.
This album comes across as a pretty calming album, most of the songs here are just Mark and his acoustic guitar. The few exceptions really stands out because they're so different from the acoustic folk.
"Not on Your Life" is one of those song. I instantly marked it as a 'favorite' as soon as the song nears its ending. I just really like how upbeat the song sounds, despite its dark lyrics.
The trick is to smile, son
when you livin' that way
it's not about slowing
it's all about sin
we better get goin'
I'll count to ten
not on your life, on your life
The other outstanding track on this album is "Facin' the Fall". I believe the girl singer on this duet is by his guitarist, Ann Scott, but there are no special credits on the liner notes.
The 'single' on this album is "Tuesday", which was made into a cute art music video:
It looks like Geary will be making a return back to Ireland on his new tour dates, which I'm quite jealous of. Opium is out today, check with the usual music outlets for the album!
An interesting note about this album: Gracenote automatically named this album as "Opium Disc 1" which lead me to believe there is a Disc 2, but quickly checking amazon and his record label, it looks like this is a single 11-track CD. Perhaps we'll see Opium Disc 2 in the future? I'll be sure to keep you in the loop if that's the case.
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