The Greenhornes
Sewed Soles

THE REVIEW

Let those three little bastards from Cincinnati go to hell! Who do they think they are? Maybe because they are Jack White and Brendan Benson's protégés and play with them in the Raconteurs?

A Greatest Hits after just a couple of albums and some EPs!!!

On their website they write: "Like their predecessors The Kinks, the Byrds, and the Yardbirds, the Greenhornes songs range from classic psychedelic sounds and soulful melodies to timeless rock anthems... Craig, Peter, and Jack have created a sound that is original yet influenced with great respect to those who have come before."

What originality and what kind of respect are they talking about?!? "Love in the sun" is blatantly Byrds, "Pattern Skills" and "Shadow of the grief" are outright thefts from the Yardbirds, "It's no real" has the same riff as "Touch" by the Dutch Outsiders of the great Wally Tax, "The End of the night" and "It Returns" are swiped from the Kinks, "Lies" is pure garage with the organ played like Jeff Monomann Connolly does in the Lyres, the bass intro of "Shelter of your arms" is directly copied from "Codine" on the first album by the Litter, "Stay Away" gives you a jolt because it's the missing song on a record by the Doors, for "Goodtimes" they should expect a visit from Rudi Protrudi who will give them hell for plagiarizing his Fuzztones, the three chords of "Satisfy my mind" were lifted from the Rolling Stones... should I go on?

In Martin Scorsese's beautiful documentary, No Direction Home, at one point Bob Dylan says: "Time... there are many things you can do that seem to stop time but, of course, you can't really do it."

It's all true, and not even the Greenhornes can do it, but then why has this album been spinning in my stereo for more than a year?