Crooked Fingers - Dignity and Shame CD NEW

ARTIST: Crooked Fingers

ALBUM: Dignity and Shame

CONDITION: New

Erich Bachman continues his plunge into good ole Americana on the Crooked Fingers’ fourth longplayer. This time, it’s a Southwestern-leaning record; the opening track, "Islero," is a delightful, mariachi-inspired instrumental. These Calexico-ish touches, however, are primarily window-dressing, as it’s not like Bachman’s really changed his Springsteen-in-Appalachia style. The album’s tunes are all sincere, at times painfully so. These are stripped-down and confessional songs that, while musically good and everything, yearn strongly for better lyrics--either the weighty poetry of a Leonard Cohen or the ironic remove of a Joe Pernice. As it is, the songs seem to sit on the fence, never fully drawing the listener into their tales of love gone wrong. A notable exception is "Call to Love," a straight-ahead burner which sounds more than a little like a collaboration between the Eels and Tom Petty. --Mike McGonigal

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