{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Dream Café | type = Album | artist = Greg Brown | cover = Dream_Cafe.jpg | alt = | released = 1992 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Folk | length = 50:42 | label = Red House | producer = Bo Ramsey | prev_title = Down in There | prev_year = 1990 | next_title = Friend of Mine | next_year = 1993 }}
'''''Dream Café''''' is an album by American folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown, released in 1992. It was produced by Bo Ramsey. It is a Red House release.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=David|last=Freedlander|title= ''Dream Cafe'' > Review |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/r122845 |publisher=Allmusic |access-date=December 6, 2010}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Entertainment Weekly'' | rev2Score = B<ref name="EW">{{cite journal |last=Wyman |first=Bill |title=Review: ''Dream Cafe'' |journal=Entertainment Weekly |date=June 1992 |url = http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20231832,00.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090421064231/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20231832,00.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = April 21, 2009 }}</ref> }} Music critic David Freedlander praised the release in his Allmusic review, writing Brown "Brown produces an album as light and refreshing as a summer breeze. Although it is plagued by the inconsistency which characterizes most of his studio work, some of his most heartfelt and enduring songs can be found on this album..."<ref name="AM" /> Bill Wyman of ''Entertainment Weekly'' wrote "... on ''Dream Café'' he's more varied musically — he'll do a grinding blues and even flirt with jazz. Also, he wields simpler but more forceful melodies, and is still very capable of pulling off a marvelous portrait, as in the moving ''Spring Wind.''"<ref name = "EW" />
==Track listing== All songs by Greg Brown. # "Just by Myself" – 4:45 # "Sleeper" – 4:28 # "I Don't Know That Guy" – 4:51 # "So Hard" – 2:38 # "You Can Watch Me" – 3:37 # "Dream Cafe" – 5:55 # "You Drive Me Crazy" – 4:56 # "Spring Wind" – 4:32 # "Nice When it Rains" – 3:10 # "Laughing River" – 4:16 # "No Place Away" – 4:10 # "I Don't Want to Be the One" – 3:24
==Personnel== *Greg Brown – vocals, guitar, harmonica *Bo Ramsey – guitar *Tim Sparks – requinto *Robin Adnan Anders – percussion, tabla, tupan, dourbakee *Gordon Johnson – bass *Dan Lund – guitar *Kate McKenzie – background vocals *Willie Murphy – piano, organ
==Production== *Produced by Bo Ramsey *Engineered by Tom Tucker *Mixed by Bob Feldman
==References== {{reflist}}
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==External links== *[http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/fast_folk/FFFF609.pdf "The Ten Best Albums of 1992" Fast Folk Musical Magazine, (February 1993) p.12-13]
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