LIFE IS IN SESSION

1.20.2009

This album sounded, to me, like Randy Newman on a guitar. Life Is In Session is an album that if it is playing in the background you’ll find yourself focusing on the words and music while abandoning whatever you were doing. This could be good or bad. Music is a great inspiration but can also be used as a wall to block things out. Comeau has such a soft sound that penetrates nonetheless. The songs range from a tale of a homeless man, to a soldier who died in Iraq, and Hurricane Katrina. The songs actually sound as though they are addressed directly to you, the listener, personally.

Emotionally evocative; an album worth picking up.

On this album:

Allan J. Comeau: vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 12-string guitar
Arthur Barrow: bass, lead guitar, keyboards, fretless bass, Hammond organ
Leo Krubsack: piano, upright piano, Hammond organ
Paul Daniels, Loni Specter, Moira Marquis, Joseph McDonald: percussion

Evan Shapiro: lead guitar
Mel Lee: percussion

Paul Daniels, Patty Fiden, Loni Specter, Moira Marquis, Julian Comeau, & Johnny Szmyd: vocals