After 2002's storming Hollerin' At A Woodpecker, Minnesota-based Weaver's latest compounds his promise. The song, essentially, remains the same?chilly steel, sparse banjo, stroked acoustic?but these vignettes sound like gutter-pulpit sermons in a disturbed netherworld. Weaver's voice?which makes Lee Marvin sound like Aled Jones?lends biblical portent to the most mundane detail. Standout track "John Martin"?its protagonist duped by a sinister drifter?is claustrophobic as hell. A one-man Brothers Grimm with no happy endings. Enjoy.
After 2002’s storming Hollerin’ At A Woodpecker, Minnesota-based Weaver’s latest compounds his promise. The song, essentially, remains the same?chilly steel, sparse banjo, stroked acoustic?but these vignettes sound like gutter-pulpit sermons in a disturbed netherworld. Weaver’s voice?which makes Lee Marvin sound like Aled Jones?lends biblical portent to the most mundane detail. Standout track “John Martin”?its protagonist duped by a sinister drifter?is claustrophobic as hell. A one-man Brothers Grimm with no happy endings. Enjoy.
