Dream Café is an album by American

United States

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 folk

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 singer/guitarist Greg Brown, released in 1992.

Reception

Music critic David Freedlander praised the release in his Allmusic review, writing Brown "Brown produces an album as light and refreshing as a summer breeze. Although it is plagued by the inconsistency which characterizes most of his studio work, some of his most heartfelt and enduring songs can be found on this album..." Bill Wyman of Entertainment Weekly

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wrote "... on Dream Café he's more varied musically — he'll do a grinding blues and even flirt with jazz. Also, he wields simpler but more forceful melodies, and is still very capable of pulling off a marvelous portrait, as in the moving Spring Wind."

Track listing

All songs by Greg Brown.

1. "Just by Myself" – 4:45
2. "Sleeper" – 4:28
3. "I Don't Know That Guy" – 4:51
4. "So Hard" – 2:38
5. "You Can Watch Me" – 3:37
6. "Dream Cafe" – 5:55
7. "You Drive Me Crazy" – 4:56
8. "Spring Wind" – 4:32
9. "Nice When it Rains" – 3:10
10. "Laughing River" – 4:16
11. "No Place Away" – 4:10
12. "I Don't Want to Be the One" – 3:24

Personnel

• Greg Brown – vocals, guitar, harmonica
• Bo Ramsey – guitar
• Tim Sparks
  Tim Sparks
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   – requinto
• Robin Adnan Anders – percussion, tabla, tupan, dourbakee
• Gordon Johnson
  Gordon Johnson (musician)
  Gordon "Gordy" Johnson, is an American double bassist and bass guitarist who has toured and/or recorded with numerous artists, a few of which include Roy Buchanan, Bill Carrothers, Lorie Line, Chuck Mangione, Dewey Redman, Greg Brown, Peter Ostroushko, Paul Winter Consort, Cliff Eberhardt, Maynard...
  
   – bass
• Dan Lund – guitar
• Kate McKenzie – background vocals
• Willie Murphy
  Willie Murphy (musician)
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  – piano, organ

External links

• "The Ten Best Albums of 1992" Fast Folk Musical Magazine, (February 1993) p.12-13