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Andy Friedman Weary Things (in which I play drums for the most part)

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Brooklyn Rail Article

Listen to Andy Friedman's new album Weary Things

From AndyFriedman.net
Friedman released his second album, Weary Things (City Salvage Records/Kindred Rhythm) in the winter of 2009, which garnered widespread critical praise, a performance on NPR's coveted Mountain Stage, and a feature interview on XM's Bob Edwards Show, further solidifying his growing reputation as a "dusty, paint-splattered Americana sage." (Rochester News & Democrat) Despite this, and along with only a handful of other albums (including releases by Tom Waits and Chuck Prophet) The Associated Press highlighted Weary Things among The Best Overlooked Albums Of 2009. "Friedman can write a lyric and deliver it," declared Stephen Wine. "He is not to be overlooked, that's for sure." Friedman's "hard-tack country originals" were described in The New Yorker as "the mark of a true artist," while NoDepression.com called his songwriting "unforgettable." Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor, in a poem written about Friedman's sophomore album, called his record a "certified, genuine American tune." Indie-folk icon Sufjan Stevens proclaimed, "I think the world of Andy Friedman. I've always wanted to be Andy Friedman." In the album’s liner notes, David Gates -- the author, Pulitzer-finalist, and former senior arts editor for Newsweek -- sets the tone for Weary Things. “What [Friedman] sees through his windshield isn’t Greil Marcus’s Old Weird America," he writes, "but the weird, new America where the pastoral is no longer pure.”
"Andy Friedman is not exactly one of those musicians you play while you're paying your bills or cleaning the house," says NPR, "his songs demand that you sit down and listen to them, which is why he is such a hot live act." While his songs are anything but funny, Friedman has published over a dozen gag cartoons in The New Yorker under the pseudonym Larry Hat. As an award-winning illustrator published under his own name, Friedman’s portraits of cultural figures appear regularly in literally hundreds of magazines and newspapers worldwide, including recent covers for the New York Times Magazine and The New Republic.