OLD ROCK HOUSE PRESENTS
The Greg Laswell show on 9/11 has been postponed to January 9th.
Tickets already purchased for 9/11 will be honored at the 1/9 show.
Tickets already purchased for 9/11 will be honored at the 1/9 show.
Greg Laswell
Wednesday, January 9th
Okay, so what? Here’s another album about
heartbreak…or heartache. But isn’t the worry that when each of us stares
down heartbreak/ache (we all do) – we just want so desperately to know
that as many as possible are just as miserable as we are? Misery doesn’t
just need company – it needs a very specific sort of kinship. And it
needs someone who can profoundly articulate it – not just rhyme a few
words about some inconsiderate asshole.It’s not important to reveal the
specific catalyst for Greg Laswell’s latest record, Everyone Thinks I
Dodged a Bullet – but rather to focus anew on what makes him one of the
most uncompromising songwriters of these modern times. You may recognize
a bit of Leonard Cohen in his tormented baritone. You might think of
Tom Waits when you sense how deep down in the gut these songs come from.
But if there is a quality that still and ever marks out Laswell’s
writing, it is an ability to use words like unrepentant paper cuts.
Should you be at the receiving end, perhaps you might not at first feel
the sting; but it will burn like hell later. Imagine the coldness of
being the subject of such biting vitriol as, “I'm gonna be lazy when I
write about you.” Imagine that you mean so much nothing to someone you
once meant the world to.
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