Blog: Funeral Pudding

Jonathan Richman has a new record out, Because Her Beauty Is Raw And Wild , and there's no other way to put it: he's grown up (and that's not a bad thing). I guess you can only keep playing "Ice Cream Man" for so long, and Richman clearly doesn't want to rest on his laurels or trademark bubblegum-folk sound. He hasn't lost his simplicity entirely, but his newer music is more sophisticated than even many long-time fans expected. There's a few deeper themes than he usually writes about here, especially the last track, "As My Mother Lay Lying", but [...]

• Jonathan Richman - As My Mother Lay Lying
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