:: Greg Page & the TCB Band - Taking Care of Country

Greg Page & the TCB Band

What do you do after you‘ve made millions and become internationally famous singing songs to five year olds? Greg Page is living his dream - singing country with Elvis’ backing band. This album is classically country, slow and melancholy in many places and twanging about lost love. Unfortunately Page‘s voice is so distinctively Wiggles that it's hard not to think of Dorothy the Dinosaur. And of course there is a serious Elvis influence to the music too, and Page must suffer unkind comparisons to The King. It's not that Page has a bad voice, he just doesn't have a good voice for country music. His voice is clean-cut and good country always has a bit of grit in it. This style of country should send an ache of loss through you, and the music is beautifully orchestrated to do just that. But in many of the songs, Page's vocals just don't hit that sense of melancholy and depth that would make this album great. The closest it gets is when he explores his lower range in the sad 'She's Mine’, perhaps because it's so far from the voice I associate with happy children's songs.