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Tom House | 'Til You've Seen Mine

CD, Catamount/Munich

Tekst: Maurice Dielemans

Publicatiedatum: 23 december 2000

Now here is an incredible album that ranks up with all the great singer/songwriter albums of all time!
Tom House might be censored and hated by the radio with such a crackly voice and his scary folk tales of murder and misery, but you can already tell by looking at the back of the CD cover that Tom House doesn't really care about all of that.
Tom House is definitely a hell of a songwriter. His creepy music follows the same pattern as the apocalyptic folk-country-blues of the Carter Family, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers' yodelling, and the early Bob Dylan. Although he doesn't break with the traditions of country music, there is some kind of weirdness in his music and lyrics, often with some punk rock feel to it, but he is also damn serious about it all. You'll hear some extremely beautiful pre-war bluegrass instrumentation and perfectly out-of-tune background vocals, but the strongest feature remains his always intelligent, breathtaking songwriting.
With no single word wasted, raw, honest, and haunted by the old-time soul of real country music, Tom House might just be the best of all singer/songwriters that you'll ever hear. Songs like 'The Cold Hard Curve of a Question Mark', 'Letter from My Father', and 'Canada' are primarily traditional American folk-country tunes, but this is all pretty out of the ordinary. While most of his songs on his third album ''Til You've Seen Mine' make him an unwelcome guest in a fucked-up Nashville, this is what real country music or any other good music is all about. I'm going to take this disc with me to wherever I might go. Highly recommended.

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