Chronogram review: "In pop music, stealth and restraint often go unheralded, yet dthese qualities are every bit as important as flash and dazzle; subtlety, in the right hands, can pack as much punch as obviousness. Husband-and-wife duo Michele and Rick Gedney, aka Open Book, know all of this, and their third CD, Grateful, exemplifies the low-key power of haunting melody buttressed with expansive harmony, the satisfaction of adroit wordplay entwined with skillfully understated musicianship. Perhaps you'd forgotten the deep pleasures of a pulsing beat switching from straight time to cut time, an undistorted Stratocaster layered over a bed of acoustic strumming, a lap steel mournfully keening at the edge of a song. Grateful will remind you" Robery Burke Warren, Chronogram
Released: May, 2015
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| The Things We Keep 2006 Contemporary, Pop/Soft Rock, and Folk/Traditional "Intelligent and astute songwriting that fully realizes that whatever the two songwriters are living through, most of their audience has also experienced." Mike Jurkovic, Chronogram Magazine Listen | |
| Out of Time 2002 Singer-Songwriter "Out of Time, is a marvelous triumph! It has become one of my favorite easy listening CDs for both the home and car." --Rick Rock, Director, Tribes Hill/Hammond House Listen | |
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