Best known for his appearances on
Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion program,
Greg Brown proves himself an able songwriter as well as a singer on
Down in There. While the majority of the album's songs are ballads leaning toward spare folk and country, "Poor Backslider" fits snugly into a Southern rock groove, while "If I Had Known" lopes along like an old rockabilly shuffle; all serve
Brown's broken-in baritone wonderfully. ~ Jason Ankeny