Grand Ledge goes hand and hand with his s/t. It's raw, emotional and honest. It also features the track Ten Things which is an amazing song to keep with you and sing for the rest of you life! I mean it! Learn the lyrics to Ten Things (It's not hard) and sing it with your friends or to your dog or to your kid or your kid sister or your grandparents or your girlfriend or that homeless guy down the street with the rusty little pot and cardboard sign. Anyone! Just remember this song for the rest of your life. If not all of them!
The song Christmas Lights also touches my heart with little feeling fingers. It reminds me of that time when my friend's family kept their christmas lights up all year long and the line: "I'm learning how to be alone without being lonely". Spot on Paul.
Hell, I probably have a little remembrance to go with all the songs on Grand Ledge.
Unbearable is Paul Baribeau's most refined work. It's the most polished down album he has in his catalog and whether or not you like the sound of that, it is still Pauly B. One track even features electric instrumentation (The Wall). Oh no! Sell out!
You can grab this album for free (legally) on If You Make It, right here. While there, be sure to read their little write up they have on this guy. Oh yeah, and check out the rest of the site too if you've never been because it's a pretty cool site filled with sweet live performances, the Pink Coach sessions and more free stuff.
25 (2006)
25 more tracks by Paul. Includes original versions of Brown Brown Brown, When You go Back to College, a song about Barbarella and Ghost Mice, and a cover of The Boss's Thunder Road with Ginger from Good Luck/Traveling. The rest of the album is all pretty much Paul Baribeau and friends messing around and being silly. Baribeau's funest album you could call it.. I guess.
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