Reviews for Great Uncles of the Revolution

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    Acoustic Guitar Magazine

    Submitted on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 05:53.
    Review: 

    Winners of Canada's 2003 Juno Award for their Chicken Scratch CD (Roots/Traditional Group Album of the Year) and edging toward even greater prominence thanks to their appearance on Kelly Joe Phelps' Slingshot Professionals, slide guitarist Steve Dawson and violinist/mandolinist Jesse Zubot team with acoustic bassist Andrew Downing (doubling on pump organ) and trumpeter Kevin Turcotte as the Great

    Review Date: 
    2004

    SOCAN Words and Music Magazine

    Submitted on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 05:54.
    Review: 

    With eclecticism increasingly the norm in improvised music, it takes a lot to confound expectations, yet the quartet The Great Uncles of the Revolution manages to accomplish it.

    Review Date: 
    2004

    See Magazine

    Submitted on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 05:54.
    Review: 

    This is essentially Zubot and Dawson under the direction of their bass player Andrew Downing, who happens to write quirky, contemporary, acoustic compositions, and who has a knack for arranging. The trumpet and fiddle play a great role here–the centre of attention, in fact–yet they’re never overplayed.

    Review Date: 
    2003