Blog: Perfect Porridge

On his new album, Someone Else's Déjà Vu (Saddle Creek), Son Ambulance 's principal singer/songwriter Joe Knapp shows he's come a long long way from his piano-driven indie-pop, "striving for a dirty Billy Joel vibe" that made up much of his 2005 LP, Key (which I really love , by the way). I first caught Son Ambulance around 2002 in a cramped apartment show in Ames, Iowa with a hardwood living room floor serving as a stage. As Knapp tinkered at his keyboard, David Dondero accompanied on guitar and the wine was flowing freely. [...]