2008 Kidz Music Reviews

April Music Reviews
albums from Gunnar Madsen & The BummKinn Band

I’m Growing & Rockin’ the Yeehaw 

albums from Gunnar Madsen & The BummKinn Band, reviewed April 2008

Whether highbrow, lowbrow or unibrow, Gunnar Madsen’s I’m Growing is the preamble to a new kid’s musical constitution. These songs are intelligent, sharp, funny and wise and filled with dis chord and dat chord - a delectable synthesis of sounds and emotional-memories that had to find their way to this specticular (a new word combo of spectacular and particular) time and space – And, the world is a better place for it. This is a good time for children’s music. Artists that listen to their own voice and share a mix of musical styles that honor the past and brave new frontiers. Madsen has belted a winner and hopefully everyone will catch it!

I’m Growing, Gunnar Madsen, Gee, Spot! Records, 2008; CD $15.00; www.gunnarmadsen.com. Buy I’m Growing at Kidzmusic.com 

This band will two-step its way right into your heart! The BummKinn Band’s Rockin’ the Yeehaw bounds out of the corral, hits the trail at a full gallop and nary lets up from there. The songs are well written and performed and the production is exemplary, so if you come to a signpost in the middle of the road that says Heehaw one way and Yeehaw the other, hightail smack dab towards the Yeehaw and you will be presently surprised and entertained, darned tootin’!

Rockin’ the Yeehaw, The BummKinn Band, Bumms the Word Productions, 2008; CD $14.00 each; www.bummkinnband.com. Buy Rockin’ the Yeehaw at Kidsmusic.com 

Also check out:

Nature Notes for Little Folks, Maureen Conlin, Happy Notes Music, 2007; CD $11.95; website http://www.happynotesmusic.com/. “A gentle introduction to the sounds, colors, curiosity and stimulations of nature - for little ones.” John Wood, Kidzmusic.com.