Monday, December 21, 2009

Trystan's Best #13: The Wooden Sky - When Lost At Sea

Released: January 24th, 2007

The best country music is the stuff not on CMT or at the Merritt Mountain Music Fest (R.I.P.), but in the smallest venues in North America, in front of small groups of passionate, plaid-ed fans. The best of these bands, in this humble writer's opinion, is The Wooden Sky. When Lost At Sea is a tight, precise collection of woodsy and heart-felt songs of heartache, sorrow, nostalgia, and all the other good things country music used to be about. Singer Gavin Gardiner has just the right amount of quiver and shake in his voice to give his songs complete legitimacy, and at a moments notice, he can pull a trigger on that voice and turn a sad song into a testament. Amen, boys.

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