Oh boy, another album by this sadsack...
Well, at least this one is starting out a little upbeat with Main Line Saloon. It's funny, my friend Ang told me she loves these posts and she was going to check out the last album I wrote about. She said she made it 5 songs and that it just made her too sad. That's a challenge with a project like this. I'm not really in a David Ackles mood right now, but I have to do a post this week because I said I would. This song is really strange and I just don't know what to say about it. I like the musicianship as I did with the last one.
There's No Reason to Cry is next, which if the last album is an indication, is probably just going to be a list of horrible things that will make someone cry. Seems like a song about a guy trying to tell his ex to keep her chin up as they part ways. Just let her feel her feels bro!
This is the second David Ackles album because the list I'm working off of is arranged alphabetically by album. I wonder if I should do one album by each artist and then go back...That seems like a lot to keep track of though.
Now we're on to Candy Man. Starting with a harpsichord, an instrument I've always wished I knew how to play. So this song is about a one-armed candy salesman apparently. It sounds so scary...OH MY GOD THEY DON'T KNOW HIS PLAN...THAT'S EVEN SCARIER! Oh no...I think he's giving kids porn with their candy. What the hell!? There are still 5 songs left.
It's so hard, I really like the music. I really do. It's moody and dark and haunting. But the songs are all so lyrically bleak...I just want someone to throw a pie.
I haven't really been paying too much attention to this song (Out on the Road) but I really dug how it picked up at the end. Sounded like it would be a good song for Ron Burgandy to sing, but the passion in the guy's voice is undeniable and the guitar and brass section is really good. This is the song of the album so far!
Cabin on the Mountain just sounds like a good old fashioned country song. I don't really have much more to say about it. I dig the fiddle, another instrument I wish I could play.
Woman River starts off sounding like the suspense score of a horror movie and moves quickly into sounding like the theme of a 70's Crime Romance Thriller.
So I'm on to Inmates of the Institution and I'm starting to think David Ackles is basically what the Doors would be if they were more straight-laced and square and had never co-opted the blues.
As I'm listening to Subway to the Country, the last song on this record, I'm thinking back on this blog and the last one and thinking that I'm trying really hard to be kind to the albums and maybe I don't need to. I don't know that I'll ever revisit David Ackles again.
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