From last week's City Pages, Paul Demko provides a musical recommendation:
Big Ditch Road's debut album "Ring" is the finest slab of roots rock to be produced in these parts in the last 12 months, owing to Darin Wald's ache-sodden vocals and Brian O'Neal's equally woebegone pedal-steel work. And anyone who's lived through a Minnesota winter can comprehend gravel-voiced troubadour Ben Weaver's lament on "The Ocean Ain't Blue": "All I know is that it gets so dark sometimes I can forget that I've got eyes."
Ache-sodden, woebegone, gravel-voiced lamentations? That does sound good. Do you think it's too late to get Ruben Rosario a Christmas gift?
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