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Written by Dante Dominick
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JAMES McMURTRY
Just Us Kids
Lightning Rod Records
(Release Date: 4.15.08) McMurtry must be on a motif, following up the critically lauded Childish Things (2005) with this month’s Just Us Kids. Included in the theme is McMurtry’s continued evolution into our generation’s Bob Dylan or Neil Young: master of the biting political protest song. Just like his predecessors, McMurtry smartly plays the social commentary card sparingly enough to avoid being pigeonholed. After all, we haven’t been clamoring for the next Phil Ochs for the past 30 years. |
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Written by Danté Dominick
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 WALTER HYATT
Some Unfinished Business, Volume One
King Tears Music
(Release Date: 1/18/08)
If there was no back story, this would simply be an incredible album. The opener, “Motor City Man,” sounds like nourishment more than it does music. This album isn’t listened to; it is experienced. Walls melt around a listener as Walter Hyatt’s vocals, with a haunting touch of Roy Orbison, penetrate beyond the surface we usually listen to music. “Sheik of ShBoom” indeed. |
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