2007-08-27
The lyrics on this recording are phenomenal, like when you have a really great novel that you can’t put down, you read a paragraph of prose and marvel at its perfection. It’s not the strange esoteric work of the past but a collection of accessible and interesting songwriting. You might read the liner notes about his home and state of mind, which is decidedly happy. Check out the musicians he employs. Bill Frisell and Loudon Wainwright III are two of them. Teresa Jeanne
Danny Schmidt
Instead the Forest Rose to Sing
Grant Peeples And The Peeples Republik
A Congress of Treasons
The Melodic
Effra Parade
Slaid Cleaves
Unsung
ERIN MCKEOWN
Sing You Sinners, 2007
Lyal Strickland
Balanced on Barbed Wire
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