After listening to GB for years on Prairie Home Companion, we purchased this album. Having grown up in the country these songs evoke so many memories. I have shared "Daughters" with numerous fathers who were blessed with daughters
This one was for my mother-in-law in Iowa. Greg Brown has a new 89-year-old fan. I read that he wrote the songs for his parents, most likely the same age as my mother-in-law. What a good way to bring memories back. Not everyone can read or watch TV at that age; music is relaxing and entertaining to older generation who grew up without the visual entertainment of TV. We already had the CD and also enjoyed it.
If you like the cover, and know nothing else of Greg Brown, then all you need to know is that he plays songs on guitar that reflect the sentiment depicted by the cover. No further pile of words need be thrown into this. If you like the album cover, and like down-home sentiments in folk song, well, Greg's the end of your search. Your search afterward is to attempt to find people like him. Good luck.