American Hearts

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  2007

  James

  The title track may refer to a country of bruised hearts, but the songs on A.A. Bondy’s solo debut deal mostly with the stuff that’s in his. Bondy uses the back-drop of his folk and folk-blues songs to mix lyrics of both personal and political insight. His greatest asset though is a voice full of Southern cracks, recorded dry and intimate. When he sings the chorus of “Witness Blues” - "and once there was a time to join the army, and once there was a time to hear the news, and once there was a time for easy silence, but now the jury waits for you" - it’s as if he’s rewritten “Blowing In The Wind” for a nation whose history is repeating itself. Again. And again.