The Newsman: A Man of Record

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GRAMMY winner John McEuen's new album, THE NEWSMAN, is a first for the

acoustic music legend who helped to define the trajectory for bluegrass and

acoustic-rooted music in the mid 1970s as a member of The Nitty Gritty Dirty

Band. The album's 11 tracks are all spoken word renditions of poems from the 19th

and 20th century that McEuen has been collecting over the course of his 50 year

career. Each story is told in McEuen's engaging baritone, adorned by his unique

instrumental compositions informed by his many years of scoring films. From the

opening title track, which is a true story about a man who sold newspapers and

was a tremendous influence on the young musician in Los Angeles, to the final

cut, "Julie's Theme," inspired by Jules Verne telling a friend, in a French cemetery,

about his recently deceased young wife, McEuen presents an album of mini-stories

at once inspirational and deeply emotional.