Norm Ballinger’s first collection of recorded songs, A Fine Thread Of Hope, comes with a philosophy, well plastered on his website, which is: “Music, Art, Poetry, and Sustainability (MAPS) are my greatest passions. MAPS is a kind of summary of the essentials of life beyond food, water, clothing, and shelter. Putting that all together in a life that is possible for these times is what it’s all about.” Aptly put, Ballinger has a cohesive concept of how life works for him, MAPS is the sum of those parts.
However, A Fine Thread Of Hope lacks in that cohesive sensibility. The collection is a willowy strand of songs that are easily defined as folk but have no variance or degrees of change. Sadly, Ballinger’s first collection sounds like one long folksy song, and too much dismay, sung rather blandly.
Ballinger seems to be a very free thinking, pleasant type of individual, who appears, on all accounts, to simply want to make the world a better place. So it pains me to speak about his music in such a way. In any circumstance, Ballinger will either continue on his musical path, dubbing me a naysayer, or he will accept this review as a calling towards another path.
A Fine Thread of Hope/Winter Exposure
The Place I Live
Home
Green Love
Hard To Be Simple
Shapely Mind
Is It Over Yet?
Echo Fading
When We Dance
Birdie
Norm Ballinger - A Fine Thread of Hope
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| Artist | Norm Ballinger |
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