Relaxing road trip anyone?
He really should use a coaster next time.
Album: Everywhere is Home
Artist: Paul Greene
Summed up in one word: Relaxed
Would I recommend to others: If they are into relaxed acoustic music they should definitely give it a go.
Animal it reminded me of: Some sort of medium sized dog wandering Australian suburbia on its own.
Situation this album definitely ISN’T suited for: Any WWE wrestling match.
This album started well. Within the song “Ease Up” he mentions having a cold beer within 33 seconds. He had my attention.
According to iTunes, this album is in the genre of “Folk”. I can’t say I listen to much folk, so I’ve no idea what it’s supposed to sound like. I was definitely expecting more harmonica and banjo.
It definitely seemed like a good travel CD. Any kind of laid back road trip where everyone is just chilling out would be perfect for this album. Or maybe it would be good as backing music to someone’s childhood. I imagined some of the songs (like “Never Too Big to Fall”) playing behind 80′s video of some young kids running around in a happy reminiscent of the old days style montage.
While Mr Greene is very laid back throughout his songs, he does have a quick temper which subsides just as quickly. Twice in the album he throws in a bit of swearing, once in frustration with the GST (Australian tax) and once in frustration at a girl not listening to him. So he’s not totally Mr Chilled, he’s totally got some passion when it comes to taxes and women paying attention.
The song “Everybody Got a Little Love” had a bit of a Blues Brothers feel at times and even had a bit of a Bee Gees whine near the end. Despite the Bee Gees whine, I do love the Blues Brothers and the overall style of this song is one of my favourites on the album for sure.
While the song ‘My My’ wasn’t really my favourite song, somehow it got stuck in my head against my will. Repeating words in the chorus must have done it…
Honestly though, while the album isn’t really my sort of thing I did enjoy the guitar and the soothing nature of some of the songs. The guy definitely has talent and the songs were well written. Definitely seemed to be the sort of down to earth Aussie guy you’d have a beer with 
After a bit of wild searching on YouTube, I couldn’t find any of his songs from this album. He does have a song up on Last.fm though.
Thanks to Will for a whole heap of suggestions! If you have a suggestion, whether you’re just some random visitor to my blog, a friend, some record company guy with a crazy different or interesting artist, someone making their own music, whoever – send me your suggestions!
