Detailed item info Album Features UPC: 881131000936 Artist: Dan Cohen Format: CD Release Year: 2008 Record Label: Weston Boys Entertainment Genre: Rock Pop Track Listing 1. Rabbit's Foot 2. When You Don't Come Home 3. Hope You Don't Change Your Mind 4. Lullaby 5. Pete Elizabeth 6. Jackknife 7. Waiting At the Bottom 8. Marie 9. You Can't Break My Heart the Way I Want You To 10. Matt Bridget 11. My Side of Town 12. Nuke-Ya-Ler Chikkin 13. Even Us Details Distributor: Select-O-Hits Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a Album Notes Dan Cohen, a Nashville-based musician who makes a living backing country artists such as Tracy Byrd and T. Graham Brown, is both a clever songwriter and an accomplished guitarist, and he is intent on demonstrating both talents on his self-titled debut album. On his compositions, Cohen portrays himself as a lovable loser with a taste for similes and metaphors he doesn't mind mixing (one verse of the leadoff track, "Rabbit's Foot," goes, "So I wear my soul like alligator skin/Hard as leather with a toothy grin/Stubborn as an anvil, crazy as a clown/But I smile for you when the sun goes down"). He usually seems to be involved, either happily or unhappily, with some woman who is a cut above him socially and intellectually ("You quoted Keats, I quoted Carlin"), and he alternately aspires to raise himself to her level or, more likely, bring her down to his. He also alternates between tuneful ballads and honky tonk rave-ups, and he tosses in three instrumentals that establish his talents as a fingerpicking guitarist. But his least emphasized yet most accessible talent may be his rich, warm tenor, which producer Matt King mikes closely on the ballads, making for a sound somewhat like Jackson Browne, but smoother. That asset may actually help Cohen succeed as a frontman. ~ William Ruhlmann DP1