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Review title: "The American" pales in comparison to "Black Sheep"
Product review: When Ravel rearranged Mussorgsky's piano piece "Scenes from an Exhibition" for full orchestra, it came alive in full 3-D color. When Martin Sexton rerecorded his signature song "Glory Bound", which was a perfect symbiosis of voice and guitar in its original form, into a quasi-rock song for a studio band, the result was a diffuse watered-down disappointment with no grip (similar to, but not quite as bad as Don McLean's live "American Pie" with the Tonight Show Orchestra). Like many others, I heard the first "Glory Bound" on public radio and almost instantly regarded it as one of my favorite folk ballads of all time. When I bought "Black Sheep" I became hugely impressed with Sexton's vocal agility, much moreso than his songwriting ability. I've heard that he is amazing in concert, but "The American" shows an innate lack of musicianship as well as a disconnection between Sexton and his own songs.
