Henry's Dream

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  The Music Slut Committee

  Steve

  "Yeah I love this album. His lyricism here is unreal. Each song is a story with the music to match, from the narrative arc of John Finn's Wife to the desparate alcoholism of "Brother, My Cup is Empty". He's so efficient with his descriptions and getting across what he wants. You could just read them as poems and get some of the same effect. "The moon looked exhausted / Like something you could pity" just gets me every time. When the democrats formed megazoid to push Joe Biden into the primary in 2020 I was singing "I Had a Dream, Joe" all the time.

  I think it's so rare to find such grounding music nowadays. I mean grounding like...almost literally. The soundscape, acoustic guitars and hammond organs, feels earthy to me, and the stories feel like people conjured from the ground that you might run into on the street or in any bar. They're songs about people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know … morons.

  I agree it reminds of McCarthy in scope, they definitely feel like they're speaking the same language and playing with similar feelings." - Steve

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  2024-02

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