Bobbo Byrnes - SeaGreenNumber5 (2020)

“SeaGreenNumber5” (yes, everything written together) is the title of the latest album by alt.country and American singer and songwriter Bobbo Byrnes from southern California. It is the follow-up to his albums “Motel Americana” from 2017, “Two Sides To This Town” from 2018 and “The Red Wheelbarrow” from last year. All three received a very positive review from the undersigned.

He releases his records as a solo artist in addition to albums that he records with his group "The Fallen Stars", a band in which his wife Tracy Byrnes also plays bass guitar. She is back again on “SeaGreenNumber5” as bass player and backing vocalist. Bobbo Byrnes himself plays mandolin, accordion, piano, pedal steel and banjo on this album, in addition to guitars, while Matt Froehlich plays drums, Jeremy Long plays pedal steel guitar and Georgiana Hennessy plays violin and violin. Additional backing vocals are sung on this eleven new song album by Jen Moraca and Tawney Ellis.

The trade press praises Bobbo Byrnes for his way of telling stories in the songs that are always built around a strong melody. Comparisons of his work with that of colleagues such as Bruce Springsteen, Paul Westerberg and Ryan Adams are therefore not unjustified. As with all his previous albums, we note here again some very strong songs such as the on the video “Queen Of The Party”, a musical tribute to the many female singer-songwriters from the Americana scene.