The Iowa Waltz
by Greg Brown
Greg Brown bestography
The Iowa Waltz is ranked 2nd best out of 23 albums by Greg Brown on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Greg Brown is Further In which is ranked number 15856 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 70.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Gilby Clarke, Rusted Stone, Sunset Sinners, Whiskey Revelation, Philthy Rych, Young/Silva, Greg Brown
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The Iowa Waltz rankings
Rankings summary
Overall rank: 36,020th | 1980s rank: 4,430th | 1981 rank: 475th| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2024 |  buzzdainer | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 33/100 | 14 |
| 2022 |  desh79 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1981 | 57/100 | 2 |
| 2019 | buzzdainer | Top 24 Music Albums of 1981 | 1/24 | 5 |
| 2017 |  bertrandu | Top 100 Music Albums of 1981 | 89/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 4 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 21 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 02/19/2023 21:56 | Moondance | 19,960 | 72/100 |
| ! | 07/14/2016 18:05 |  Tamthebam | 22,894 | 69/100 |
| ! | 07/13/2016 13:54 | IvanKazachkov | 4,216 | 55/100 |
| ! | 02/16/2016 20:00 | buzzdainer | 3,338 | 79/100 |
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From buzzdainer 06/03/2017 17:59 | #191916
buzzdainer 06/03/2017 17:59 | #191916
There are a lot of artists calling themselves "low-fi" without really being low-fi. Then there are artists like Daniel Johnston, who do indeed sound like they're recording at the bottom of a well, though I'm not sure this is a good thing. And then there's Greg Brown's The Iowa Waltz, which actually sounds purposeful in using production that makes it sound like an analog recording from the 1950s. These are throwback songs that feel like they came from a bygone era, though really it's a bygone era of a time that never was: a time when Middle America represented hard-working farmers who cared about their neighbors and communities. I'm skeptical, but it's definitely an America I want to believe in, and Iowa folk troubadour Greg Brown delivers it perfectly. The album is a model of consistency, but my favorite track is "The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home," a fitting nod to one of America's greatest and most influential country singers.
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