Simon Joyner & The Fallen Men - Skeleton Blues

Sounding like Doug Yule-era Velvet Underground, Dylan with The Band (or is it Neil Young and Crazy Horse?), and Sister Lovers damaged Big Star, this is unlike any other Simon Joyner record. Skeleton Blues explores themes of loyalty, alienation, death, time, war and divorce. Like the doctor who warns his patient in the Passenger (from 1998's Yesterday, Tomorrow And In Between), "go forth and run and hide but you're just like all the others I've seen, a skeleton inside," Joyner views our struggle for beauty and meaning to be more important than our fear of death and the unknown. His skeletons are people in states of transition, falling and climbing, failing sometimes but always swimming the backstroke from the rolling graveyards.

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