Canadian singer / songwriter Fred J. Eaglesmith has been making music since the early eighties. Especially the beautiful albums Drive-In Movie (1996) and Lipstick, Lies & Gasoline (1997) earned him a lot of fans. Falling Stars And Broken Hearts is his sixth album and is released shortly after the double live album Ralph's Last Show. Eaglesmith wrote twelve new songs, which again convincingly
… describe the life of the average American. He fits in the line of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Steve Earle. The lyrics are sometimes humorous (I Wanna Buy Your Truck) and sometimes moving (Your Sister Cried). The musical accompaniment this time does not come from The Flying Squirrels, but from his own Fred Eaglesmith Band. Due to the use of instruments such as banjo and mandolin, Falling Stars And Broken Hearts sounds like a country album, but apart from that it is just a beautiful listening record that will also appeal to fans of folk and Americana. (MvP)more
