{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Evening Call | type = Album | artist = Greg Brown | cover = The_Evening_Call.jpg | alt = | released = Aug 8, 2006 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Folk | length = | label = Red House | producer = Greg Brown, Bo Ramsey | prev_title = In the Hills of California | prev_year = 2004 | next_title = Yellow Dog | next_year = 2007 }}
'''''The Evening Call''''' is an album by American folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown, released in 2006. It was his first album of all new material in over four years.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev3 =''PopMatters'' | rev3Score = 8/10<ref name="PM">{{cite journal |last=Horowitz |first=Steve |title=Review: ''The Evening Call'' |journal=PopMatters |date=August 2006 |url = http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/4446/greg-brown-the-evening-call/ }}</ref> }} A review of the album in ''Sing Out!'' includes a lengthy description of the album's sound: "Brown and Ramsey do themselves proud with the laid back production, mostly guitars, bass, soft drums and percussion and the occasional harmonica that never obscure the lyrics and keep the action moving forward. You'll hear every detail of Brown's voice growling its way through the complex and sometimes brilliant lyrics. However, Brown makes Leonard Cohen sound like Mr. Sunshine. This CD requires several listenings to divine all Brown has to say and absorb the depth of his writing, but it's not one you'll want to put on the repeat mode on your CD player."<ref name="so">{{cite journal |last=Warren |first=Rich |title=Review: ''Off the Beaten Track: Greg Brown - The Evening Call'' |journal=Sing Out! |date=Winter 2007|page=112}}</ref>
''Acoustic Guitar'' states that the album "is among Brown's finest work," and suggests the work was "clearly influenced by the sudden death last year of Brown's close friend Bob Feldman, head of Red House Records."<ref name="ag">{{cite journal |last=Kelp |first=Larry |title=Review: ''The Evening Call'' |journal=Acoustic Guitar |date=April 2007 |url=http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag117/reviews117.html |pages=99, 12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520202040/http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag117/reviews117.html |archive-date=2011-05-20 }}</ref> ''Dirty Linen'' compared the album to "a visit from an old friend", stating that the album, "stimulates self-reflection, connection to happy and painful memories, optimism for the future, and an appreciation of the humor in life..."<ref name="dl">{{cite journal |last=Parrish |first=Michael |title=Review: ''The Evening Call'' |journal=Dirty Linen |issue= December 2006-January 2007 |page=55}}</ref> ''PopMatters'' named the album as one of the Best Folk albums of 2006.<ref name=pm2006>Horowitz, Steve, [http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/8678/best-folk-of-2006/ Best Folk of 2006"], ''PopMatters'', December 20, 2006</ref> In his review of ''The Evening Call'', Steve Horowitz wrote "Brown’s songwriting has never been more creative. His voice never sounded more demonstrative. And as an added bonus, the backing instrumentation has never been more sensitive to the nuances of Brown’s many moods."<ref name="PM" />
==Track listing== All songs by Greg Brown. # "Joy Tears" # "Evening Call" # "Cold & Dark & Wet" # "Bucket" # "Mighty Sweet Watermelon" # "Treat Each Other Right" # "Eugene" # "Coneville Slough" # "Kokomo" # "Pound It on Down" # "Skinny Days" # "Whippoorwill"
==Personnel== * Greg Brown – vocals, guitar, harmonica * Bo Ramsey – guitar * Steve Hayes – drums, percussion * Ricky Peterson – piano, organ
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