Looks like
The Cactus Blossoms (my sons, Page and Jack Torrey) are getting some good end-of-the-year attention. The
City Pages listed their recently released CD as one of
Minnesota's Best Albums of 2011.
It's easy enough to phone in a cornball imitation of old country. Slap on a Western shirt and pair of cheesy cowboy boots, perfect a properly affected twang, and yodel along all the requisite themes: Mama, Trains, Trucks, Prison, Gettin' Drunk (thanks, David Allan Coe). It's another thing entirely to live and breathe the craft of writing and singing a good country and western song, as the Cactus Blossoms have done. The self-titled first release by close-harmonizing brothers Page Burkum and Jack Torrey features two traditional covers, but really takes wing in its eight originals, carefully smithed songs that prove these brothers are every bit as real-deal as their country predecessors. --Nikki Miller (See Article)
On the national stage,
CMT News also gave them a nice mention in a December 20 article,
The Most Overlooked Albums in 2011.
Finally, the album I've listened to the most this fall is by the Cactus Blossoms, a close-harmony duo from Minneapolis. These young men won a duets competition at the Minnesota State Fair last year, and this self-titled debut project of mostly original tunes proves they deserved that blue ribbon. It's true and traditional country, folks. --Craig Shelburne (See Article)
Looks like The Cactus Blossoms (my sons, Page and Jack Torrey) are getting some good end-of-the-year attention. The City Pages listed their recently released CD as one of Minnesota's Best Albums of 2011.
On the national stage, CMT News also gave them a nice mention in a December 20 article, The Most Overlooked Albums in 2011.
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