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Tone Poet vol II

by Derwood Andrews

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1.
Killed a Man 03:02
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2.
Hi Value Target 03:23
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3.
Coyote 02:52
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4.
Feel Your Pain 04:28
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5.
Drunk Punk 02:52
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6.
Who's Gonna Help Me Now 04:17
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7.
Time 02:44
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8.
Fool You 02:49
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9.
Give Her The Gun 03:58
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10.
The Net 02:59
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11.
The Best Is Yet To Come 03:59
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12.
This Is Life 02:51
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13.
Death Song 03:08
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Derwood Andrews, and the sound of a post-punk, post-blues Catcus Acid Milkshake...Dec 2014.

Tone Poet, Vol. II is the extraordinary new album by a relatively little know artist named Derwood Andrews. This deeply sensuous and luscious exploration of ambient blues and Americana is rootsy, meditative, and utterly magical to listen to; if you have ever pressed your ear against an acoustic guitar and just heard it ringing, if you’ve ever just wanted to live within the sound of an open tuned steel guitar, if you ever wanted to hear the sound of Clarksdale meeting the sound of Joshua Tree (with a very, very heavy dose of surround-sound hydrophonic/acidphonics), you will love this album.

Tone Poet, Vol. II is an album for people who love the SOUND of the guitar, by which I mean the deep, rich, natural ambience and harmonic of a beautiful, open-tuned instrument; it’s also an amazing exploration into old American forms, made dreamlike yet tactile, new, and resonant to the heart.

Deeply modern, deeply old, this is a motherfucker resonator of an album. Tone Poet, Vol. II is full of songs that are so lightly but perfectly sketched they feel almost as if Andrews just transcribed them out of the desert air; this is complimented by a Lanois-esqe attention to depth of sound that is absolutely mega-sensuous, like a cactus milkshake poured slowly over a crossroads where the devil and the hi-def meet. The landscape is completed by a frisson of ultra-simple synths effectively swooping in every now and then and occasionally goosing the rhythm.

Let’s put it this way: If TONE POET, VOL. II was a new album by Beck, it would almost certainly be a serious contender for the Grammy for Album of the Year; if it was by, say, Bob Dylan, it would be the certain winner. If Tone Poet, Vol. II was a new soundtrack to a Coen Brothers film curated by T Bone Burnett, it would be a much-talked about evocation of 21stCentury Blues; and if it was a new release by, oh, Mark Lannegan, post-grungers all over this great land would be getting stoned and telling their friends it was the best album of the year.

By Tim Sommer for The Brooklyn Bugle

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released December 19, 2023

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Derwood Andrews California

Guitarist, writer and founding member for- Generation X, Empire, Westworld, Dead Horse, Moondogg, Speedtwinn, Tone Poet and other glorious stuff...

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