With the street date for No Great Lost: Songs, 1979-1985 mere weeks away, we're starting to see some encouraging advance press for the anthology. Two fantastic Atlanta-area underground music publications have recently reviewed No Great Lost -- here's what they had to say:
Stomp and Stammer, a great music paper run by Jeff Clark (whose work in Creative Loafing some of us grew up reading and adoring), featured a review by Tony Paris. Tony was one of the first boosters of Kevin's music, writing what may have been the first Fans feature article in New York Rocker. His lengthy review of No Great Lost is beautifully composed, incredibly insightful, and begs to be read in its entirety, which you can do here. Here's an excerpt:
"While the Allman Brothers Band, with its dual-lead line-up of Duane Allman and Dickey Betts, defined the Southern Rock genre, Kevin Dunn destroyed it...Quirky and compelling, Dunn aims for the head, heart and hips, and achieves his target...There are a lot of gems on No Great Lost, songs created in and of a time when making music, especially making a record, was more making a statement than making a digital download someone might happen to click upon. Indeed, the songwriting, the musicianship and the ideas behind the songs collected on No Great Lost make the title all the more ironic and the world's past indifference to Dunn all the more moronic. Maybe the release of this CD will help to change that."
Baby Sue -- both its music review incarnation and its endlessly beguiling/provocative/hilarious comics -- has long been a presence in our hearts, minds, and homes. It doesn't hurt that Baby Sue honcho Stephen Fievit makes incredibly hooky yet unsettling low-fi garage-pop under the name LMNOP. We love his tunes and his toons, and equally appreciate his perspective on current pop music releases, which he publishes monthly at www.babysue.com. His review of No Great Lost is available to read here. Read the comics, too, and share them with your friends...here's a peak at what he had to say:
"Long overdue...Dunn was an artist who was at the wrong place at the wrong time. If he had been living in Europe when these tracks were recorded, he would probably be a legend by now...Sadly, Kevin's moody and peculiar music was far too artsy for Atlanta when they were originally released. This man was obviously ahead of his time."
More good news to come!