YOURS AND NOT YOURS Officially Released Today!

09/02/2009 08:58 AM

You can purchase my new album directly from Parasol Records or you can purchase it from KoolKatMusik and receive a rare bonus George Usher Too Late CD free!

Incoming Reviews:

Burning Wood
Beautifully crafted and relentlessly hook-filled pop, from Cleveland born, NYC based, singer-songwriter George Usher.

Limewire
East Coast power-pop’s secret superman, George Usher has been on the scene for twice as long as the aforementioned Apples, but it’s still not too late to get in on his cult-status phase. Since the ’80s, Usher has worked with Beat Rodeo, The Bongos, The Schramms, and others, but he’s been turning out perfect-pop solo albums since the mid-’90s, and his latest is as full of winsome tunecraft, heavenly harmonies, and help-it’s-stuck-in-my-earlobe hooks as savvy camp followers would expect.

The Big Takeover
Singer/songwriter GEORGE USHER has quite a NYC underground pop pedigree, boasting stints in BEAT RODEO and the SCHRAMMS and long associations with RICHARD BARONE and current power pop darling EDWARD ROGERS. He does have a small catalog of solo albums, though, of which Yours and Not Yours is the fourth. Though Usher’s prior experience might lead you to believe this is a jangle pop record, it’s not. Instead, lush, gentle tunes like “Love By Any Other Name,” the pedal steel-laced “Unforgivable Sin” and the strings ‘n’ piano-drenched “Just a Story” have more in common with the baroque pop of the LEFT BANKE and its plush, folky cousins from the late 60s and 70s. This means that Yours and Not Yours demands a certain attentive focus in order to appreciate Usher’s craft and charm; put this on in a busy office as background noise and you’re likely to dismiss it as soft rock. Which would, frankly, be a mistake – Usher’s graceful melodies and emotional depth softly caress the ears and heart alike if you give ‘em a chance.

YOURS AND NOT YOURS features 12 new songs, presented as a song cycle and featuring top New York City musicians:
Mark Sidgwick, Jon Graboff (Ryan Adams & The Cardinals), Claudia Chopek, C. P. Roth, Guy Finley, Edward Rogers, Doug Larcey, Bill Stevens and many others…

Mixed by Mitch Easter (REM, Let’s Active)
and Mastered by the legendary George Marino at Sterling Sound…

TRACKS:

1. Somewhere North Of The Sky (George Usher/Edward Rogers)
2. Love By Any Other Name (George Usher)
3. The Stranger Came (George Usher)
4. Put It Out Of Your Mind (George Usher)
5. Jericho’s Mistress (George Usher/Dave Schramm)
6. Just A Story (George Usher)
7. I Would Have Done Anything (George Usher/Edward Rogers)
8. Unforgivable Sin (George Usher)
9. Is There Something You Want To Say? (George Usher)
10. Where Is Your Guardian Angel? (George Usher)
11. Comedy Of Errors (George Usher)
12. It Never Happened (George Usher/John Dunbar)