
There have always been two Damien Jurados. One is the freewheeling troubador, with raucous country pop songs like "Honey Baby" or "Letters and Drawings" off Rehearsals For Departure . The other is the poet of cheated husbands with short-fuse tempers - or just about anyone whose life is plumbing the depths. His last album, And Now That I'm In Your Shadow , was all the second and his darkest work in years. It was beautiful and wise and pristine, but it had the potential to send you into a major depression for months. Fortunately for my [...]