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...according to our Phil on Thu 23 Aug, 2007.
Wooden Wand releases his 20th album (so I'm told) and I thought we'd write about it. This one is on Ecstatic Peace and it features Steve Shelley & Lee Ranaldo playing with their own instruments. Nice. I was expecting something more far out when I heard this and it's pretty much straight Dylan, T Rex 60's style folk rock. There's some decent tunes on there though which makes it all most listenable. Occasionally it's punctuated by some hideous sounding guitar which needs to be shot. Played with soul though, which is very apparent. 'James & The Quiet' is a decent long player.Brand new album from James Toth aka Wooden Wand. Released on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label, it features contributions and production from Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley. While each release has explored a psychedelic-folk wonderland, this album is far and away one of the most concisely focused and downright catchy recordings in the WW oeuvre. “I wanted it to be an un-weird record,” Toth says. The road-weary songwriter had been spending a lot of time with old Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings records, and wanted to transcend the 'psychedelic' connotations he'd been pegged with since his days fronting The Vanishing Voice. He wanted to do what Elvis Costello did on ‘Imperial Bedroom’ or Leonard Cohen did on ‘I'm Your Man’ - he wanted to not give the people what they wanted but instead endeavor to follow his muse and create something different.
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