Barton Carroll - Love & War
Reviewed by david
Crooked Fingers multi-instrumentalist Barton Carroll couldn’t get Love & War released for five years; the album was completed in 2001 but no labels showed any interest until Birmingham, AL-based Skybucket Records picked it up last year. Carroll’s style of folk music—mostly bare, chilling, austere—is delicately pretty and morose, and he brings in some friends to pack some meat (violins, cello, bassoon, etc.) on his songs’ skeletons. Though Love & War (the two topics he covers) is adding little to the modern folk canon, it’s deserving of more than just a few listens. [www.skybucket.com]