A.A. Bondy - American Hearts
Reviewed by mike
There’s bourbon on the breath of folkster A.A. Bondy and you can smell it through your speakers. On his debut solo release, American Hearts, the former Verbena frontman (then rocking much harder and known as Scott Bondy) crafts hauntingly dark, rural-sounding songs of retrospection while channeling Freewheelin’-era Dylan with Ryan Adams/Jeff Tweedy sonic-folk modernism, only this is the record Adams dreams of making. Bondy’s authenticity radiates through his Alabama-troubadour growl, sorrowful harmonica and blues-tinged fingerpicking, easily making American Hearts one of the folk records of the year. [www.myspace.com]