Come On Home - Rural Free Delivery
Rural Free Delivery execute the genre hop fairly well. When they launch into a Paul Simon-like groove on "Went to the Mountain," complete with diamond guitar patterns and steel drum, they sound like a band who sounds like that, playing some variation on that sound in every song. "In the Middle of the Night," which follows, is barrelhouse ragtime pop that still sounds like a jamband, but sounds like one which hangs out in that corner of the world. Except for a few clunkers - "Blue" is convincing jam-pap - the disc is a pleasure to work through, packed with surprises and little stylistic maneuvers that keep the whole affair interesting. Oblique Strategies sez: "Use an old idea.