The Southern Part of Heaven - COMMENTS//REVIEWS

The place to post your comments & reviews of Barry Lee Harwood's new album, "The Southern Part of Heaven". The comments/reviews below are excerpts from emails sent directly to Barry Lee.

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04/18/10 by Tom Dodamead:
After reviewing this incredible piece of work it sounds like all of the roots of southern music from southern rock to country to bluegrass to gospel have finally merged into a masterpiece. This will inspire you no matter what your heritage is.

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04/19/10 by David Humphreys:
Barry, Old friend from ATL. I just bought "The Southern Part of Heaven" and Loved it.

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05/05/10 by Southern George:
dear barry lee, sir.

i got "the southern part of heaven" a while ago from CD Baby. download. straight to my computer! i love it. easy and fast. before i always have to wait for about 2 weeks, pay for postage and sometimes duty....but it comes without cover art.......

but come to the important part, the music. i LOVE this album much and have it on permanent rotation in my car and listen to it a lot back home.

with no regrets, you really know how to start a new album.the first riff says it all. it is like a statement. "here is a new southern rock album" with a lot of great southern music, nice stories, fantastic guitars, heavy riff's and very touching voices. i love you bring banjo harmonica and stuff it, that makes it fresh and not a second on this album is boring.

laid back in the south is one of my favorites. i remember, when i heart it for the first time. before the music started, i felt like being "back home" in the south, where my heart always is. nice hot and humid. sittin in a rockin chair in the shade at a porch, sweet tea, kids, dogs and story telling. and i love to listen when the harp starts telling the story.....man, i wish myself back to the south RIGHT NOW!

when the beat goes slower at come the morning, i lean back, can close my eyes and fly away, thinking about my wonderful life. the sax start telling me about my wife ceci. we're for 18 years now and i love her more every day and the piano helps out, imagine our future and it will be great.......

the rooster on rocky top flyer wakes me up and remind me when friends in AL take me out fishin' for my first time (no fishin, hunting, shooting in my country for people without big money in my country).....livin' in a apartment is a big city, i never had a dog but i miss the south and the old dog at the winters farm....

the grand piano together with the orchestral string arrangements on somet eagle is the only thing, i don't like so much on this album (sorry, but i think, i should tell you what i really think and feel) it is a great song, but not written for me. beautiful voices at i am that i am. who are they?

and you let me go with workin on my story.......another great song, easy goin and still playin on in my mind when i turn the music off.

i hope, you're not just working on your story and go on working on another album. it might take years, but take your time and play more of this great southern music for me and for the world. with this album, you did a fantastic new milestone in southern culture. while other bands celebrating themselves and run for more money, you sit back and did southern culture history. thank you much sir.

i won't close, without typing my feelings to sweet chariot.
i sure believe in God. not in church or religion, i believe in GOD, the one and only father for ALL of us.black, white, yellow, old. young, muslim, buddist, jew, hindu, christ and so on, father for poor and rich, smart or stupid, old, young, male, female (and everything between in this crazy times)...and i love to listen to gospel music a lot. most gospel songs are worn out, overheard, played to death (like born to be wild, sweet home aL....) when i read, you recorded it, i asked myself, do we really need this song recorded again? after listen to it, i know, WE NEEDED IT !!!! you made is sound so fresh, so new....it touched me deep in my heart and i played it again and again.

sir, you're a great, talented musician and a fantastic person. please do more music when you got the inspiration and i hope i will see you again one day, somewhere on this beautiful planet.

all my love

george