Gann Brewer

Gann Brewer’s 4th full length album, ‘Highway Lullaby’ is a clear eyed, down home, soul warming collection of songs that act as a sort of guide, a road atlas for the wanderer coming home. There is a geographic tidal movement, between everywhere and Mississippi. Brewer’s upbringing in Northwest Mississippi looms large in his work, anchoring the feel and the expansiveness of the album, calling like a ‘ghost down by the river.’ .. This album doesn’t glorify the paperback mystique of the road and this isn’t the sound of a bleary eyed rake laughing off the back of the train. This is the sound of a man who has found home, made peace, has time to tell his story and to hear yours. But this home is neither off or on the road, it won’t let you define its walls, it travels with you, beyond you, yet it remains the source of the myth, a construction, and while you create it, this elusive home, it creates you. ‘
The driver with a hand steady but loose on the wheel, ready to react, trusting and open, wise and weary, and when the golden hour comes and the white lines smile, how the changes dance around your tranquil heart, a world in tune, moving like a river, all these living, enfolding, racing things coalesce like a highway song.

-Review by Neil Enggist. Neil Enggist is an artist, poet & musician based between Upstate New York, Switzerland, New Mexico, and the Road.. His amazing work can be found online via his webpage, neilenggist.com