If It's Too Loud...

Forgotten Fridays is an occasional feature here at If It’s Too Loud... where we go back and find the lost records of our glory days. We played these on our college radio shows, put them on countless mix tapes, and then forgot they existed. We go back and remind you of their existence, and help decide if they were any good. Oh, the mid 1990's. It was the glory days of the compilation album, where labels would just throw a bunch of bands on a cd, knowing that as long as you liked two or three of the bands, you'd but the entire album since there was no way you'd ever have any other way to get a copy of the exclusive songs. One of their favorite ways to put one of these together was a tribute album. You'd get a bunch of bands that would usually never be associated together, often covering an artist you'd never expect.  One of these tribute albums was Twisted Willie , which is a mostly alternative tribute to Willie Nelson. Including Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings ...

Originally started as a fundraiser to help pay for Dave Lamb's medical care before he passed away from leukemia in 2014, this two disc album is now a tribute to Lamb and his band Brown Bird. It will now be used to raise funds for Sweet Relief which offers financial assistance to career musicians facing illness, disability, or age related problems. One truly unique aspect of this tribute album is that it features Lamb's friends, fans, and collaborators. That might take some of the bigger names out of the mix, but you get interpretations of his songs by people who truly care about the man and the music. Of course, Brown Bird's influence was pretty far reaching, so we still get versions of songs by names such as The Devil Makes Three and Joe Fletcher. The first track we can hear is "My Mind is An Altar" by South China, which is made up of former Brown Bird members Jeremy and Jerusha Robinson. You can hear that song below. To pre-order your copy of the two disc ...