Walt Whitman Mall
Self-Released
2013
Rating: 7 king sized candy bars out of 10
I grabbed this Bill Janovitz album on a whim - I'd loved his band Buffalo Tom since I was in high school, even saw them live right around 1992 (and still have the t-shirt from the show!), even if I hadn't listened to them much lately. I had next to no expectations but this is a solid, well-written pop record. He didn't do anything new and exciting, but he did a whole record's worth of songs that are well crafted and worth hearing. It's a record by and probably for the older set like me, mature pop songs with just a tinge of roots/folk/alt-country...honestly, if you called it a Buffalo Tom record instead of a solo Janovitz record I doubt anyone would even notice. And now I'm feeling a strong urge to bust out my copy of "Let Me Come Over"...
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