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This music is like the ghost of something I heard a long time ago. The songs written and played by the duo made up of Jeffrey Angeley and Benares Finan-Eshelman conjure a far off spirit that resides in mountain hollers, smoky honky tonk saloons, and on wide, cool front porches. Who the hell writes like this anymore? Together these two are a mighty antidote to any ailment. Their music is a poultice to a soul weary of saccharine love songs, one-off boy bands, and bland folk troubadours.



The two might start off with a careening tune reminiscent of a 57 Chevy barrelling down a lonesome bluegrass highway, mandolin and guitar solos screeching to perfect stops and starts, and then wind up in the middle of a sparse ballad referencing Bibles and teacups, held together by vocal harmonies so tight my grandfather could of bounced a quarter off em in the Army. This stuff is the real deal, folks. The voice sometimes breaks, but you know she means it, and your heart breaks right along with the crooked notes.



These are the songs you want to hear when youre driving a little too fast on a country road in the middle of July, windows down, finally free of whatever it is youre longing to leave behind. You want to hear these songs when youre holding hands with your best girl, and then again when she leaves you all alone and lonely. This is music to listen to repeatedly, not just because its well written, well sung, and well-played, because believe me its all of those things, but because this is music that speaks to us all about the long, dusty road that makes us human.



Member Since:November 22, 2006
Last Login:March 23, 2007
Location:New Bedford, MA
Birthday:May 20
Schools:Umass Lowell, Kenyon College, Umass Dartmouth,
General Interests:Music, Fiber Arts, Travelling

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