Capsule Review: The Belleville Outfit

Time to Stand utilizes a very interesting approach to funding (or at least partially funding) an album release. For this, their sophomore effort, the young sextet created an “Adopt a Song” campaign for fans who would like to have their names mentioned in the liner notes and at concerts in exchange for some sweet, sweet green. Not bad. And, as it turns out, none of those handsome, clean, smiling orphan songs went without a home. All those little tunes dressed up nicely with violin, Wurlitzer and male/female harmonies. They were brushed and combed and made to look mighty fine by Grammy Award-winning producer Bil VornDick, a man who’s worked with Ralph Stanley, Alison Krauss and Lucinda Williams, to name a few. And when this mischievous band of songs gets together on Time to Stand they find they can work together as a unit okay, but are sometimes better as stand-alone tracks which dart around between a big band boogie feel, gypsy swing, Americana and all points in between.

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