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Ed Hamell's best work has the gritty feel and heft of a big steaming slice of life sandwhich, even when you think (hope?) he's just making it up-- "verisimilitude" is just a little too precious , smacks a little too much of the seminar room, to describe his dirty realist punk folk. His masterpeice "Choochtown" introduced a revolving cast of loons, goons and buffoons that came across like a speed addled cross between Nelson Algren's "A Walk on the Wild Side" and Dennis jjohnson's "Jesus' Son". But between his hilarious rants, more tender songs appeared, obviously inspired by his recent marriage, providing moments of sanity and hope. Well now Hamell's a brand new , middle aged daddy, who starts pondering a fairly recent development in parenting : what do I tell the kids when they ask me about the drugs (or crimes, or kinky sex) I've done? Obviously not of the "do what i say, not what I do" school of pedagogy, Hamell lets it ALL hang out on this album--- I think one of the few unpardonable sins for Hamell must be hypocricy. SFPWED combines his machine gun delivery and Bill Hicks cum Lenny Bruce scathing humorand insight into a worthy succesor to "Choochtown" I bought this for a an old punk rocker buddy whos now a DA--he listened to it twice through at my apt one night, before driving home drunk, with a line a speed in him to get him home safely to his wife and newborn son. Dulce et decorumn estRead full review
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