It’s been long time since I updated brontosaur.us. My freelance worked picked up dramatically recently and I haven’t had as much free time to work on Brontosaur.us. Enough of that. Here goes.
Golden Bones sounds like a bunch of guys sitting on a front porch in the Appalachian mountains singing and playing for their own enjoyment. (Thank you, Golden Bones, for recording your music and sharing it with the rest of us.) Surprisingly, this music comes from Brooklyn, and not some dusty, coal mining town.
From The Cost of Comfort:
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My favorite lyric in the song occurs in the final refrains: “That boy needs me. His mother’s already gone.” I missed it the first few times I listened to the song. But that little detail adds so much context to the story.
Golden Bones is releasing their new album on Friday, October 10th. They’ll be playing a CD release party at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg. Check ‘em out. If you’d like to buy their CD, there is information their myspace page about how get your own copy. I look forward to hearing the rest of the album.
Mason Hedgecoth, A.K.A. Yojimbo, is playing the banjo for Golden Bones. Yojimbo has a lot of great songs in the same vein.
