Friday, September 15, 2006 09:53:42 AM
MUSIC
Dan Reeder Likes Beer
LISTEN TO I DRINK BEER
Dan Reeder's new second album Sweetheart consists of 15 original songs, plus a cover
of Procol
Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale," that sounds like the demo version Gary Brooker
probably dreamed of singing 39 years ago before all that baroque production-work
got in the way. It isn't so much a sequel to his wonderful out-of-nowhere,
out-of-time 2003 debut, Dan Reeder, as it is an extension
of--a more freewheeling elaboration on--his first musical offering.
Certain themes recur on Sweetheart: Dan likes to be alone ("I Don't
Really Want To Talk To You"; "Just Leave Me Alone Today"); Dan
likes to think about, and have, sex ("Pussy Titty"; "Pussy Heaven"--for the son
of a minister, he's got quite a mouth on him). But most of the time, Sweetheart
is about the sound of Dan Reeder's cracked, dry, confiding voice and the pleasant
noises he gets out his homemade guitars, his multi-tracked harmonies with himself
and his occasional puff on a harmonica.
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