With my departure from eMusic, after drawing $10 from my bank account for months on end, came a small-scale exodus of music. Really good albums from Yo la Tengo and Built to Spill to be mentioned, but most notable is a bones-bare album from a bluesman named Patrick Sweany of whom I had received his second, more blues-rock instrumented release only a week earlier.
Both albums find you pulling a melody out of the air during a daily moment of impatience only to remind you: "Yeah, I taught you that". But only through proper listening syntax have I begun to appreciate the latter Every Hour is a Dollar Gone as much as his first. Lyrically, it is his earlier
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